Example Sentences

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"Majestic, stately, dynamic, Irene Papas was the personification of Greek beauty on cinema screens and on the stage, an international star who radiated Greekness," Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said in a statement.

From Reuters • Sep. 14, 2022

We teach him about his Greekness, and his Jewishness, and even about my grandmother’s Scottish heritage, but I know we are leaving out his Black heritage.

From Slate • Jul. 13, 2021

By the end of the year, you will drown in big fat Greekness.

From Time Magazine Archive

A: I think you have plenty to talk about with your friend here without bringing his Greekness into it, so let’s go ahead and set that particular topic to the side for now.

From Slate

They made much of him, painted him, wrote music and verses about him, raved about his Greekness, his beauty, his yellow hair, and his voice and what not, as if he had been a woman.

From The Martian by Du Maurier, George