Greenlander
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"Greenland belongs to us. It's our country. It doesn't belong to Denmark or the United States. We are a people and we live here," 68-year-old Greenlander Grethe Kramer Berthelsen told AFP.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
"As a Greenlander, I can't help but wonder: what are we worth to these allies? To what lengths are they willing to go to protect us?"
From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026
Instead, the Vances visited Pituffik Space Base, where American service members work together with Canadian, Danish and Greenlander allies.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2025
“When the long Darkness spreads itself over the country, many hidden things are revealed, and men’s thoughts travel along devious paths,” a west Greenlander told the explorer Knud Rasmussen sometime around 1904.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 17, 2016
The work of the hunt proved too strenuous for the Danish Greenlander, and finally Hans was worn out by exposure and fatigue, while he fell sick from cold and wet.
From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Greely, Adolphus W.
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