How to Use country in a Sentence

country

1 of 2 noun

• He moved to the north country to fish and hunt.
• The whole country was stunned by the news.
• They prefer the country to the city.
• The two countries have a lot in common.
• We went camping in the hill country.
• She lives out in the country.
• They drove through miles of open country.
• They are living in different parts of the country.
• The President has the support of most of the country.
• They drove across the country from California to New York.
• The struggles of Mormonism in a country where to be Irish is to be Catholic.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 July 2023
• See what the boys and girls of my country want to be—presidents.
  — Essence, 2 Apr. 2024
• At the end of the day, getting our country back on track is our focus.
  — ABC News, 5 Nov. 2023
• The two countries make more cars per person than anywhere else in the world.
  — Daniel Hornak, Fortune Europe, 8 Jan. 2024
• Little Amal has met crowds in 13 countries over two years.
  — Noah Schaffer, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
• Most gold is held by countries — the US alone has more than 8,000 tonnes — but the world is filled with private stashes.
  — Yvonne Yue Li, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2024
• This wood comes from Brazil and other South American countries, and has been used to age beer over the years.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 May 2023
• The meeting between Blinken and Xi could open the door to economic talks between the two countries.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 19 June 2023
• O’Brien said the production would spend between a week and 10 days shooting in a country.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 9 Mar. 2024
• Wilson was nominated for two awards at this year's event — country song of the year and country artist of the year.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
• No one country was singled out, as projects from five countries took the honors.
  — Callum McLennan, Variety, 29 Nov. 2023
• And even so, the U.S. has an advantage Israel does not: these countries are thousands of miles away.
  — TIME, 12 Oct. 2023
• In 2020, Singapore became the first country to allow it to be sold.
  — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• The most things people should know about our country is our history.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2023
• He’d been vetted by the French, and now he was being embraced by artists in English-speaking countries.
  — Vulture, 27 May 2023
• But Meta hasn’t said when tags will be supported on Threads in other countries, and for now users can add only one tag at a time to a Threads post.
  — WIRED, 17 Nov. 2023
• The last viewers saw of the pair, Nicole had returned to America to prepare for Mahmoud’s arrival in her country.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
• The Bible represents the strength gained through faith to sustain us and those lost from our country, founded as one nation under God.
  — Britt Riner, Fox News, 27 May 2023
• Many cooks in South Asian countries add a spoonful of oil when cooking lentils or rice to prevent liquid from boiling over.
  — Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 20 June 2023
• After selling-out arenas in their home country, the guys have spent this year on the festival circuit.
  — Lucas Villa, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2024

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country

2 of 2 adjective

• Does anybody think the Sioux moved to the Dakotas for the cross-country skiing?
  — WSJ, 17 June 2022
• The park sits smack-dab in the center of the city and hosts a number of high school and college cross-country races.
  — Molly Hanson, Outside Online, 8 Feb. 2022
• My sophomore year in high school, my friends on the track and cross-country team convinced me to join.
  — Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 5 Apr. 2022
• My heart pounded as cross-country skiers collapsed to the ground at the finish line.
  — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2022
• The Raiders, who got drilled 48-9 by the Chiefs, have lost two straight and have to make the cross-country trek on a short week after that beatdown.
  — cleveland, 13 Dec. 2021
• But for the longer cross-country trip, flying is far cheaper.
  — cleveland, 22 May 2022
• Diggins wins the first-ever sprint medal in cross-country skiing for @TeamUSA.
  — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2022
• Unlike figure skaters, cross-country skiers don’t try to hide the pain involved.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022
• At the time of his death, Saget was in the middle of his cross-country comedy tour, with at least a dozen more live shows scheduled for 2022.
  — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 10 Jan. 2022
• Newbury Park flexed its slow-twitch muscle fibers in the fall cross-country season.
  — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2022
• The snow affected the men's cross-country relay ski race so much that workers used leaf blowers to clear it out of the tracks.
  — Bernie Wilson, ajc, 13 Feb. 2022
• At the time, Alana was also a distance runner and won a national age-group cross-country race at the age of nine.
  — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2022
• The 39-year-old singer, who is in the middle of a cross-country tour, shared her latest look on Instagram, and fans are loving it.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 21 June 2022
• Don't worry too much about why cross-country skiers are asked to stop and shoot targets midrace, just enjoy the drama.
  — Mark Osborne, ABC News, 5 Feb. 2022
• The film explores how the pair would like a bit more space but the son gets the opposite when sitting next to his mom on a cross-country road trip to Las Vegas.
  — oregonlive, 7 May 2022
• Petito, 22, had been on a cross-country trip with her fiancé.
  — Sophie Reardon, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2022
• Last year, a moose forced a temporary halt of the lead pack of skiers at the 50-kilometer Tour of Anchorage cross-country ski race.
  — Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2022
• The fight happened weeks before authorities say the boyfriend killed her while the couple was on a cross-country van trip.
  — Brady McCombs and Sam Metz, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2022
• The fight happened weeks before authorities say the boyfriend killed her while the couple were on a cross-country van trip.
  — Fox News, 3 Nov. 2022
• The storm began its cross-country journey by dumping heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada.
  — CBS News, 15 Dec. 2022
• Over the weekend, cross-country skiers and snowshoers flocked to Northeast Ohio parks to take advantage.
  — Alexis Oatman, cleveland, 14 Feb. 2022
• USA Network is showing the men’s 15km cross-country skiing race live, early in the morning.
  — oregonlive, 10 Feb. 2022
• The trip was planned by head coach Joe Judge back in May as more of a preemptive way of avoiding any jetlag for the team that might come with a cross-country flight.
  — Patricia Traina, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
• The climb understandably takes up the bulk of the race and includes sections of cross-country skiing and hiking when the snow gets deeper and rougher.
  — New York Times, 19 Feb. 2022
• Beth Sobiloff had always wanted to embark on a cross-country road trip in an RV.
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022
• The 49th state is sending curlers, cross-country skiers, a figure skater and a hockey player in search of new hardware in Beijing.
  — Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Feb. 2022
• Dax McDonald was on a cross-country rail trip with his family when the train derailed.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 27 June 2022
• This tale starts in 1946, long before the home itself, when a young architect and Notre Dame graduate was on a cross-country road trip.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• Laundrie and Petito set off on a cross-country road trip last July.
  — Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 30 Mar. 2022
• Petito and Laundrie set off on a cross-country vanning trip last June.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 22 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024