How to Use Teutonic in a Sentence
Teutonic
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For him, the West ended at the old borders of the Roman Empire, which had cut through the Teutonic territories.
—Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
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The Easter egg hunt of today and the Easter bunny may have evolved from the myth of Ostara, a Teutonic goddess of spring, who had a hare scatter birds' eggs over the countryside for children to collect and take home.
—Elaine Rewolinski, jsonline.com, 25 Mar. 2026
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Once cataloged, items were confiscated with typical Teutonic efficiency and sent to Germany or liquidated for Hitler’s war effort.
—Christopher C. Gorham september 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
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Six days later, off the southern coast of Ireland, a German U-boat torpedoed the ship’s starboard side with such Teutonic precision that its funnels were underwater in eighteen minutes.
—Claire Carusillo, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
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Klinsmann had relocated to live in California and fused a helicopter- flying, management- consultant- speak LA vibe to his natural Teutonic meticulousness.
—Roger Bennett, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2026
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With Teutonic deadpan, Sander sends up the often ideologically weighted social photography of which his project is an example—and records the giddy, glitchy instability of the Weimar years, when the old order was in disorienting flux, and would soon disappear altogether.
—Max Norman, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
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