Example Sentences

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How Tereza’s exile helps her countrymen isn’t quite clear, but I suspect it starts with giving someone younger her house and her job.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Ablakwa said on Wednesday that his fellow countrymen were "victims of manipulation, misinformation of criminal trafficking networks".

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

On TV, at town halls and universities, the bespectacled officer, with close-cropped gray hair and an almost professorial demeanor, lays out the stakes for his countrymen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

They’re mad, and they think less of their countrymen now.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

Only a fraction of his countrymen would give up their lives to win it, and it was not his ambition to be among them.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller