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.
• But nation's top pitcher is back. 'Get Bo to the plate.
  — Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star, 31 May 2023
• 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
• The change means nations can now apply lower tax rates to some goods.
  — Diana Baptista, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2023
• Across both schemes, the delegates are from across the U.K.’s nations and regions.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Aug. 2023
• The United States is a nation that loves a tomato sandwich.
  — G. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
• This event, known at the Baptism of Poland, is considered the birth of the modern Polish nation.
  — Danuta Hamlin, Fox News, 17 June 2023
• The United States has one of the lowest life expectancy rates among wealthy nations.
  — John Wilkerson, STAT, 8 Nov. 2023
• My friendship with Fred Moten spans a nation of Black music.
  — Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• There is one nation that was neither a subject or ally of Napoleon.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024
• The argument was that money, like goods, should flow freely among nations.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 18 June 2023
• Cyprus is an island nation in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2024
• Related: Is today Huntsville’s last as nation’s best city to live in?
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 16 May 2023
• That, helped a new nation break free from an old one and develop into a new world power.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2023
• The incident was among a string of shootings in which the victims appear to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time in a nation plagued by gun violence.
  — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 27 June 2023
• In Nuremberg, in the fall of 1945, twenty-two high-ranking Nazis were put on trial before a group of judges from Allied nations.
  — Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• Can an oil-dependent nation lead the fight against global warming?
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2023
• Based on a 2019 United Nations report, Brazil is one of the most socially inequitable nations on earth.
  — Gabriel Leão, WIRED, 27 Dec. 2023
• But the party can ignore the realities of a changing nation for only so long.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 5 Oct. 2023
• The Fool responds: The debt ceiling is a limit, imposed by Congress, on how much outstanding debt our nation can have.
  — The Motley Fool, Dallas News, 4 June 2023
• Others say the bloc’s next leader must be a woman, or someone from an European Union nation, which Britain is not.
  — Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• That temperature hike is almost double the amount that nations agreed upon in the Paris Agreement.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
• Some of the aid—like a trip to learn de-mining techniques—even comes from impoverished nations like Cambodia.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2023
• Within weeks, further talks were arranged in the nearby Gulf nation of Qatar, which had been trying for years to help broker the release of the Americans.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• Costs on leases are down 1 percent compared with a year ago nationwide, with more than half of nation’s largest cities seeing drops.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
• The surprise switch shaved Taiwan’s diplomatic allies down to fewer than a dozen nations.
  — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2024
• But if a great nation deserves the truth, the truthtellers should have the necessary courage to pursue reconciliation.
  — Rich Logis, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
• Her reaction saved a goal in what would turn out to be a 0-0 draw with France — a crucial outcome for the Reggae Girlz, who advanced to the knockout round for the first time in their nation’s history.
  — Lindsay Schnell and Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024