the English

noun

: the people of England

Examples of the English in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Earlier this week, French rescue services said one person had died and two were missing after attempting to cross the English Channel, the stretch of water that separates England and France. Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024 On February 23, more than 10,000 residents were asked to leave their homes for several hours as a military convoy removed the explosive from the Keyham neighborhood of Plymouth, a city in southwest England on the English Channel. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024 Cosmo Jarvis told me how his research began with getting a better understanding of the geopolitical tension between the English and the Catholics during the period, a rivalry core to his character. Anhar Karim, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024 Critics pounced on him for gambling on the lives of people who make crossings of the English Channel in small boats. Stephen Castle, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024 Dwarfed by Guernsey and Jersey, the more significant landmasses in the English Channel, Alderney is only slightly larger than its neighbors Herm and Sark, the latter of which is notable for having been, until 2008, the last feudal state in Europe. Rebecca Panovka, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024 More than 29,000 people arrived in the U.K. in small boats in 2023, having made the often treacherous journey across the English Channel. Pan Pylas, Quartz, 23 Feb. 2024 Elsewhere, Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is trying to overcome a U.K. Supreme Court ban on his signature migration policy, a plan to send asylum-seekers who reach Britain across the English Channel on a one-way trip to Rwanda. Llazar Semini, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2024 Film Not in the English Language 20 Days In Mariupol Anatomy of a Fall Past Lives Society of the Snow The Zone of Interest Documentary 20 Days In Mariupol American Symphony Beyond Utopia Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie Wham! Radhika Seth, Vogue, 9 Feb. 2024

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“The English.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20English. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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