the British

noun

: the people of Great Britain and especially England

talked about the British

Examples of the British in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Stuart Jeffery, leader of the council, has written to Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, urging the British government to introduce legislation that would grant a general pardon to those executed under the Witchcraft Act of 1562, including the women hanged at Penenden Heath in 1652. —James Frater, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025

So, is the idea to replicate the British pub experience of people discussing hot topics informally? —Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 31 Oct. 2025

The other is a series of emails sent by Andrew around the time of Giuffre’s first newspaper interview in February of 2011, which recently emerged in the British press. —Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025

Deadline revealed earlier this month that the company was suing Avalon after the British producer’s Spitting Image series on YouTube depicted Paddington Bear as a potty-mouthed podcast host. —Jake Kanter, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025

Rhymes for the British

• skittish