How to Use national treasure in a Sentence

national treasure

noun
  • One of Canada's national treasures, the park boasts over 2.7 million acres and is the largest in the Canadian Rockies.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 26 July 2024
  • Colman is a national treasure, and thank god the United Kingdom was generous enough to share her with the rest of us.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Flaco Jiménez is viewed as a national treasure in Texas, and there is a statue of him in San Antonio.
    Joel Selvin, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Gillian Anderson has been a British national treasure for many years.
    Joe Utichi, Deadline, 13 June 2024
  • Its most famous film version, in 1939, is a national treasure.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Simply put, San Gimignano is one of Italy’s tastiest national treasures.
    Rose Minutaglio, ELLE, 14 July 2023
  • For this episode’s Quickfire, national treasure George Wendt (a.k.a.
    Jihane Bousfiha, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2023
  • That night, Pit informed the crowd in Raleigh, N.C., about their encounter and joked how the 78-year-old national treasure has something in common with his signature catchphrase.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Photo: Alamy The arrival of summer brings long days, beach reads, and now some welcome laughs, thanks to sci-fi veteran and national treasure Connie Willis.
    Liz Braswell, WSJ, 23 June 2023
  • The French were simply protecting their national treasure that had almost been stolen away by Germany.
    Johnny Noakes, Hartford Courant, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Are bridge piers in the Susquehanna a hindrance or ‘national treasure’?
    Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2024
  • The humongous trees don’t grow in either of their districts but are considered a national treasure.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The History of Pecans A national treasure, pecans are the only tree nut indigenous to America.
    Christina Manian, Rdn, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 June 2023
  • The roots and blues musician is considered a national treasure.
    Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Taking the sleeper to Scotland—a national treasure of a service, but not the Orient Express—was my idea for a memorable beginning.
    Jo Rodgers, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The French Ministry of Culture announced it designation of the two pistols as national treasures on July 6, shortly before the auction took place.
    Karen K. Ho, ARTnews.com, 9 July 2024
  • Paul plus national treasure and four-time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2023
  • And because of its hallowed status as a national treasure, any efforts at root-and-branch change quickly run up against political resistance.
    Mark Landler, New York Times, 16 July 2023
  • At 88, Mahlangu is a national treasure, her work widely recognized and in private collections worldwide.
    Nargess Banks, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Long before his tents became national treasures, Washington used them to inspire confidence in his troops.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2024
  • That may be because there is not a lot of it there, accounting for around 3 percent of the country’s vinous output, but those in the know are aware that Australian Pinot Noir is an underappreciated national treasure.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 7 May 2024
  • But the vast majority of Mulligan feels about as ambitious as its title character, who spends much of the season trying to find the national treasure from National Treasure.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 May 2023
  • Britain’s queen consort, who worked with O’Grady to support animal charities, led tributes to a performer who emerged from the alternative gay comedy scene and became a national treasure.
    Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2023
  • In choosing to make an example of Gary Lineker by suspending him for criticizing the British government’s asylum policy on Twitter, the network went up against a national treasure.
    Steve Douglas, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The Kentucky Derby went from a local race into a national cultural phenomenon and a wooden bat became a national treasure.
    The Courier-Journal, 18 July 2024
  • Captain Christine Sinclair is a national treasure as well as international soccer’s all-time leading scorer, male or female.
    Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The cavalryman had been designated as a national treasure, said Rong Bo, an artifact conservation expert who visited the Franklin Institute to assess the damage.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Meanwhile, national treasure Dolly Parton was looking characteristically fabulous.
    John Russell, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024

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