Example sentences for: compatriots

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

  • Eyman and his compatriots collected a record-setting 500,000 signatures for I-695, arguing quite rightly that the state was flush with cash.

  • Donatello has sculpted a fine polychrome wood St. John the Baptist for his compatriots’ Florentine Chapel, to the right of the altar.

  • They need not be brothers and not exactly friends, but they could at last recognize each other as compatriots with a common language, a single history, and a shared future.

  • Before the century was over, Henry’s compatriots Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco da Gama completed epic voyages, rounding the Cape of Good Hope and reaching India, respectively, and Pedro Álves Cabral claimed Brazil.

  • The Civil War enabled Americans of different cultural strains, some with power, others without, to see themselves as compatriots of a single nation.


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