Icelander
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Asked to sum up his emotions in the immediate aftermath, the Icelander said: "One word, just pain."
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
"Nobody knows what will happen the next hours or next days or weeks," Hanna, the adroit and knowledgable Icelander who'd been our guide throughout our trip, told me via message earlier this week.
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2023
However, it soon transpired it was of a type familiar as a tourist keepsake from Iceland, and the runes were identified as a poem composed by a 20th-century Icelander.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2023
One of these recruits was a girl from his neighborhood — a singer who would go on to become, by the end of the 20th century, probably the most famous Icelander in the world.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
Then Bobby’s royal displeasure was directed at another Icelander, Gudmundur Thorarinsson.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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