Example sentences for: briton

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

  • In front of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), 317 Dundas Street West, an intense Henry Moore bronze, Large Two Forms, proclaims the museum’s outstanding feature: North America’s finest collection of the Briton’s works.

  • Francis Hamilton, the Briton who first described zebrafish (

  • The AGO’s Walker Gallery exhibits sculpture by fellow Briton Barbara Hepworth, as well as Rodin, Dégas, and Maillol.

  • Like the lead guitarist of the erstwhile Dire Straits, Amis is a stolid, middle-class New Briton blessed with considerable chops, torn between worldly cynicism and a certain nostalgie de la boue , whose wish to get down and dirty is undertaken professionally but stops a bit short of conviction.

  • In its pages can be found linguistic traces of the former rivalry between Boer and Briton, the naming practices of the Khoi and San (Hottentot and Bushman in former terms), racial conflict (derogatory terms like Boer, Kaffir, and Hottentot each have more than a page devoted to them), the political discourse of the apartheid regime, and the counter-discourse of the resistance movements.


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