Example sentences for: nation

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

  • "We have ignited the very human rights catastrophe the war was started to avoid," declared Pat Buchanan on Face the Nation . Columnist Arianna Huffington compared Kosovo to Waco, arguing that just as Clinton's actions six years ago "precipitated" the murder-suicides by the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas, his intervention in Kosovo "has unwittingly produced one of the great humanitarian catastrophes of the 20 th century."

  • Secretary of State Madeleine Albright when confronted on Face the Nation with the charge that the bombing had backfired.

  • The nation is renowned for its gift-giving, as we all know.

  • But were it not for the 1920s, and for the historical value of the Nazi and East German documents, this collection might rival Ruritarian Photographs of a Century , with its obligatory nods to every passing wrinkle of fashion devised elsewhere, its dull portraits of statesmen unknown outside the fatherland, its honorable but unexceptional petits maîtres . This, from a nation which invented the Leica, comes as something of a surprise.

  • "How can Americans love their nation if they hate its government?"


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