Example sentences for: america

How can you use “america” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And what could be said about New York seemed to me to apply also to America as a whole.

  • Yokels, for example, are called hicks in America and hodges in England; and because workhorses once often sported the name Robert , we call a prototype horse Old Dobbin and our ancestors called rocking horses hobby horses .

  • It is even less true now--and not because America, in the classic pluralist formulation, is a "nation of nations," a neutral holding pen for various diasporas; nor because America is some dehumanizing, single-mold "melting pot."

  • On the one hand, you have the continued proliferation of the too-scary-to-be-fictional genre, which was pioneered by Fox and exemplified by When Animals Attack and World's Scariest Car Chases . At the same time, more and more of the networks' schedules are occupied by news shows--which generally have at least a loose connection to reality--such as Dateline . And although America's Funniest Home Videos is no longer provoking belly laughs across the country, variants thereof air regularly as specials.

  • One columnist recently wrote that "America's unique strength has always been that the path to success isn't totally rigged, that it's not simply about being a member of some inner circle that cuts you in on the action for life," and that spinning threatens this strength.


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