How to Use national in a Sentence

national

1 of 2 adjective

• The game was shown on national television.
• She won the national championship last year.
• Doing well in the Olympics is a matter of national pride.
• His test scores were higher than the national average.
• Baseball is called America's national pastime.
• Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
• Late-night talk shows have been part of the national routine for decades.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
• Will the Jaguars be able to perform under the national spotlight?
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 1 Sep. 2023
• Howes is a current member of the U.S. men’s national handball team.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 30 Jan. 2024
• The Tigers finished 3rd in the AP poll, but some other rankings crowned the Tigers national champions.
  — Matt Cohen | [e-mail], al, 18 Aug. 2023
• Not so in Georgia, which has for years been held up as a national success story.
  — Matt Stevens, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• But someone ratted her out, and the head of the Cheka (the national secret police force), Solomon Mogilevsky, gave her a choice: Go to jail or spy for us.
  — Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
• The Mavericks join Central Missouri State in 1984 as the only two schools to win both the men’s and women’s national titles in the same year.
  — Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2024
• Either way, Mathews appears to be more than ready to chase after his goal of the national high school record in the 800 meters in the outdoor season.
  — Logan Stanley, The Arizona Republic, 18 Jan. 2024
• But the shift reflects a change in national mood, especially among the white voters who make up the vast majority of the GOP.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• In time, the ability of national financial systems to work through debt will be a marker of the rise and fall of nations in the 21st century.
  — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
• The union wants the automakers to cover workers at the battery factories in their national contracts with the UAW.
  — J. Edward Moreno, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
• The iconic folk singer was killed in Chile’s national stadium shortly after the coup.
  — Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
• Since 2021, demand for the drug has created a months-long national shortage — one that’s still going.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2023
• Nearly half the population lives under the national poverty line of 76 cents a day.
  — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
• Friday marked the first time the United States played the national team currently known as Montenegro at the senior men’s level.
  — Tim Reynolds, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
• The pride is in the punishment, and the achievement, and in being part of a sport that, among Colombians of all ages, has become an unexpected national pastime.
  — James Wagner, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• There was a late lead against the defending national champions.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
• And within a decade, a national movement to restrict it gained momentum.
  — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024
• One troubling sign for future retail spending is national credit card debt, which crossed $1 trillion for the first time this year.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2023
• That month, there was not a single day when the call center hit the national standard of answering 90 percent of calls within 15 seconds, the data shows.
  — Emily Davies, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
• This means roughly 13% of workers in the state are employed in the manufacturing sector, besting the national count by more than 4%.
  — Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 18 Jan. 2024
• Whichever two teams emerge from each bracket will play a best-of-three series in the finals to determine a national champion.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 29 May 2023
• That's because New York's cost of living is the highest of the cities SmartAsset analyzed, at 137% above the national average.
  — Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 9 June 2023
• Spain saw 15 players quit the national team citing mental health concerns.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023

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national

2 of 2 noun

• She's a Mexican national now working in the United States.
• The U.S. Nationals will be held in New York City this year.
• King is the first U.S. national known to be detained in North Korea in nearly five years.
  — Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
• The release of the Thai nationals was part of a separate deal with Hamas brokered by Turkey.
  — NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023
• The Nepali government has asked Russia to send back hundreds of Nepali nationals recruited to fight for them in the war.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
• Fey, who will be a senior next year, won the discus by throwing 168 feet, 7 inches at nationals.
  — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 11 July 2023
• But researchers and Western diplomats say the killings of the miners did not fit the profile of how rebel groups have targeted Chinese nationals in the past.
  — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 15 May 2023
• The latest round of hostages included a group of 10 Israeli women and children, and four Thai nationals.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2023
• Most of the foreign nationals are Russian, Ukrainian and Egyptian.
  — NBC News, 11 Nov. 2023
• North Carolina’s goal came in the 77th minute on a penalty kick from Kerolin Necoli, a Brazilian national who was dangerous in attack most of the evening.
  — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• The man, a Chinese national, made a brief court appearance Tuesday.
  — Nick Perry, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
• And for the first time, all prefectures across the country saw a decrease in the number of Japanese nationals, a ministry spokesperson told CNN.
  — Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 27 July 2023
• Prince Phillip came from limited financial standing and was born in Greece, though still a British national.
  — Jacob Linden, Redbook, 5 May 2023
• The challenge right now, Margaret, is that the Egyptians are prepared to let Americans and other foreign nationals out of Gaza.
  — CBS News, 29 Oct. 2023
• Outside of Israelis and Palestinians, Thai nationals have suffered the heaviest toll in the war.
  — Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2023
• In the same indictment, three Russian nationals were also charged.
  — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2023
• At least 17 Israelis and one foreign national have been killed by Palestinians.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
• The governments of these countries have worked with Cambodia to rescue their nationals, but the efforts have mostly been on a case-by-case basis.
  — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• The rest were Westerners, including a dual national of the United States and Canada.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
• An arrest warrant was issued for the suspect, who is a Mexican national, and a judge assigned a $5 million bond.
  — Joe Kottke, NBC News, 29 Apr. 2023
• The husband, a 53-year-old foreign national, had begun the process of applying for a green card and needed to pass an interview scheduled for a few days later.
  — Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• Caeleb Dressel, the seven-time Olympic champion, swam in the nationals after taking a break for mental health reasons.
  — Scott Miller, New York Times, 9 July 2023
• Comer has argued that these two wires are a small part of a broader pattern of payments made by foreign nationals to Hunter Biden and his business associates over the course of a decade.
  — Jacqueline Alemany, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
• But even as foreign nationals fled the fighting, millions of Sudanese residents remained trapped with no way out.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 30 Apr. 2023
• One of the suspects, a 40-year-old male Cypriot national, allegedly jumped out of the second-floor balcony of his residence when police ordered him to open his door.
  — Amarachi Orie, CNN, 17 Aug. 2023
• Visas are not required for U.S. citizens and U.S. nationals.
  — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2024
• The United States has charged two Russian nationals with deploying Lockbit ransomware against companies and groups around the world.
  — James Pearson and Karen Freifeld, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2024
• So far this year, the Guatemalan authorities have helped repatriate 58 dead nationals.
  — Daniele Volpe Daniele Volpe, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• Some of the reserve pool consists of candidates from bigger member states that might want to fund additional space trips for their nationals.
  — Tereza Pultarova, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2024
• Dual nationals make up a sizable share of society in Israel.
  — Josh Lederman, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024