old country

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Recent Examples of old country It’s also called Ghost Riders in the Sky, a reference to an old country song about phantom cowboys galloping after demon cattle. Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025 The 20-year-old country crooner was charged with driving under the influence, underage consumption of alcohol and failure to exercise due care. Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025 Bryan is a 28-year-old country singer-songwriter who released his fifth album, The Great American Bar Scene, in July 2024. Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025 Last Friday, the 31-year-old country star stopped her concert at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida, to chastise fans who were yelling obscenities about the 39-year-old Australian singer. Ashley Hume, Fox News, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for old country
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Noun
  • The Republican president earlier told reporters that the U.S. was soon preparing to send letters to different countries, informing them of the new tariff rate his administration would impose on them.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 28 June 2025
  • That colossal production, which involved the construction of villages in which to film and the onscreen involvement of the host country’s armed forces, began as a lark and turned into an albatross.
    Jillian Steinhauer, New Yorker, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • The funeral on Saturday comes after a wake for the brothers’ family was held on Friday morning at a church in their hometown of Gondomar, the church told CNN.
    Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 5 July 2025
  • Current and former teammates of Liverpool and Portugal soccer players Diogo Jota and his brother André Silva gathered on Saturday in their hometown to pay their last respects.
    Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • In sum, despite recent claims questioning their nativity, extensive fossil and genetic evidence confirms that manatees have been present in Florida’s waters for thousands of years, with ancestors dating back over 12,000 years.
    Beth Brady, Sun Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2025
  • It is decorated with celestial frescoes and houses a vast nativity scene—a traditional craft construction particularly popular in nearby Naples known as a presepe.
    Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Veins branching along my skin like the waterways of my mother country.
    Lauren Vuong, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Reread Jefferson’s words in the Declaration of all the rights that King George III had denied his American subjects and forced them to break from the mother country.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This suggests affection for Scorsese’s western ran wide but not deep among the Blighty contingent, consistent with their history of only embracing films about America’s racial ills when they’re directed by Brits.
    Vulture, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2024
  • According to The Associated Press, more than 29,000 people have hit the shores of Blighty this year on small boats, after over 46,000 last year.
    Adam Shaw, Fox News, 8 Dec. 2023

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“Old country.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/old%20country. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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