How to Use nation in a Sentence

nation

noun

• It's one of the richest nations in the world.
• The President will speak to the nation tonight.
• The entire nation is celebrating the victory.
• The first plates in the nation with a large image appeared in the Gem State.
  — Cory Graff, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2022
• Poole idolized the city star, who was the top recruit in the nation.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 May 2022
• The new tower will be the first in the nation to have an all-LED beacon light at the top.
  — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 24 Aug. 2022
• But nation's top pitcher is back. 'Get Bo to the plate.
  — Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star, 31 May 2023
• That’s a year-on-year drop of 10.5% from the world’s largest steel making nation.
  — Simon Constable, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2022
• Which smells to the nation Like a private who’s done a latrine wash.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
• Six eateries from the European nation made the list – three of them in the top five.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 6 June 2024
• Some of the best players in the nation, so that don’t qualify me?
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 20 May 2022
• At the funeral processions, the coffins of the Afghans were draped in green cloth but bore the flag of no nation.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2024
• How does women’s health care in the U.S. stack up to other nations?
  — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 15 Aug. 2024
• Within a few days, images of the Battle of the Overpass flashed across the nation.
  — Mike Smith, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2022
• His death at the age of 67 sent shockwaves around the world and stunned the nation, where gun violence is rare.
  — Time, 22 Dec. 2022
• The change means nations can now apply lower tax rates to some goods.
  — Diana Baptista, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2023
• After all, Texas is one of the snakiest states in the nation, with more than 80 species, 11 of them venomous.
  — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2022
• Some people say the threads of our nation are breaking.
  — Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 4 July 2022
• But there could and should be a resolve to recognize how all of that works against the progress of this nation.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2024
• For the most part, at least for now, as the nation nears the millionth death, the pandemic feels like a thing of the past in Tuolumne County.
  — Ryan Kost, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 May 2022
• Across both schemes, the delegates are from across the U.K.’s nations and regions.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Aug. 2023
• Prior to the 2023 Women's World Cup, those two had been the only two nations to lead the rankings.
  — Asif Burhan, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
• Of course, the show wasn’t all a reminder of our divided, racist nation.
  — oregonlive, 6 Feb. 2023
• And so, for me, the most important thing is that the people in the film work closely with the Osage nation.
  — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
• Singapore was the first nation to approve the sale of the meat, poultry and seafood clones just over two years ago.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2023
• The citizens of the richest nation in the world can and should finally put an end to it.
  — Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2023
• Facts Flint once thrived as the home of the nation’s largest General Motors plant.
  — CNN, 9 Dec. 2022
• The United States is a nation that loves a tomato sandwich.
  — G. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
• The truth is that never in the annals of warfare has a nation supplied its enemy with food and aid while its own citizens are still under fire.
  — Avi Weiss, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2025
• Both nations project strength while speaking in threats, each certain of its own moral superiority.
  — Literary Hub, 22 Aug. 2025