NATIONALITY in a Sentence

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1. They wanted to create a new nation.
2. The entire nation mourned her death.
3. The Chinese are an industrious nation.
4. Class differences can divide a nation.
5. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion.

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 Meanings and Examples of NATIONALITY
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nationality
 n.  people having common origins or traditions and often comprising a nation
 n.  the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The desire and yearning of my soul is for an African nationality.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
2  You talk to me of nationality, language, religion.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  Then it occurred to him: if the answer to the question were contained in his name, his nationality would also be given in the answer.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XIX
4  "That little wisp looks like it was just the best he could do," she thought, not seeing in his face the cold hard intelligence that was carrying the weight of a new nation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  Representing nothing on God's earth now And naught in the waters below it-- As the pledge of nation that's passed away Keep it, dear friend, and show it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
6  It's a poor person and a poor nation that sits down and cries because life isn't precisely what they expected it to be.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
7  And such a society, such a nation, is determined by the Gopher Prairies.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
8  But though no other nation has ever had any written whaling law, yet the American fishermen have been their own legislators and lawyers in this matter.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
9  Cleric had explained to us that 'patria' here meant, not a nation or even a province, but the little rural neighbourhood on the Mincio where the poet was born.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: II
10  The Socialists were organized in every civilized nation; it was an international political party, said Ostrinski, the greatest the world had ever known.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29
11  But the red Hurons are not deaf; and counsel that is fit for the great men of a nation would make the young warriors drunk.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
12  When the young man mentioned the artifice he supposed the Indian to have practised on his own nation, the countenance of the listener was veiled in an expression of cautious gravity.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
13  Listen," repeated the Indian, resuming his earnest attitude; "when his English and French fathers dug up the hatchet, Le Renard struck the war-post of the Mohawks, and went out against his own nation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
14  He enumerated the warriors of the party; their several merits; their frequent services to the nation; their wounds, and the number of the scalps they had taken.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
15  Some were rushing eagerly to enjoy the aquatic games of the lake, and others were already toiling their way up the neighboring hills, with the restless curiosity of their nation.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Gone are the days when a big nation could lord it over small ones.
17  The Chinese are an industrious nation.
18  The Chinese nation is distinguished for its diligence and courage.
19  We are, indeed, a nation of the law, and every citizen is guaranteed certain minimum rights.
20  Civil war and famine sent the nation plunging into anarchy.
21  Class differences can divide a nation.
22  The British Library holds its collection in trust for the nation.
23  Tax increases have proved fatal to the nation's business community.
24  Only a nation of educated people could remain free.
25  They wanted to create a new nation.
26  They hoped that the exhibition would enhance the cultural life of the nation.
27  Greed and aggressiveness constricted the nation's cultural life.
28  Youth is the season of hope, enterprise, and energy, to a nation as well as an individual.
29  The entire nation mourned her death.
30  The British nation has not risen up in a generation.