Example Sentences

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“Our people, we’re schmoozers,” Bacall lamented as he prodded his landsmen to move it along.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2023

“I love my landsmen, but I will never ever understand them,” she posted on Facebook two weeks ago, after a young mother in her community died from COVID-19 in late November.

From Slate • Dec. 6, 2020

The pitch from the gas companies’ representatives, known as landsmen, were effective, she said.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2011

An endless stream of obvious landsmen with nautical aspirations tramped bravely up the gangways and roamed the concentrated, neat interiors.

From Time Magazine Archive

No one can say for sure where he was killed, whether some hostile landsmen or the sea, the stormwaves on the deep sea, got the best of him.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer