How to Use the British in a Sentence

the British

noun

• Celtic fans wave the green, white and gold of Ireland, Rangers the red, white and blue of the British flag.
  — James Hookway, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2023
• To date, the British series has been available on AMC+.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 6 Mar. 2023
• The Financial Times is playing its role, as is the rest of the British media.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023
• Liam Payne, who rose to fame as part of the British boy band One Direction, is dead at 31.
  — Kimi Robinson, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Oct. 2024
• During the Victorian era, there was a craze in the British Isles for ferns.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 17 Feb. 2023
• The Ukrainian boxer started out fast against Fury, but the British star owned Usyk in the middle rounds.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 19 May 2024
• And the iron gates had been removed, and the reason they'd been removed was Kam Tin was the site of a rebellion against the British takeover in 1898.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2023
• All eyes will be on Daniel Lee’s first collection for the British heritage brand.
  — Irene Kim, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2023
• Big Boi has long championed the British singer in interviews over the decades.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2023
• Horan was the only member of the British boy band native to Ireland.
  — Libby Cathey, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2023
• Last month, the British government gave the go-ahead to develop Rosebank, the largest untapped oil-and-gas field in the North Sea.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2023
• The colonialism of the British empire has been a major discussion point over the past two years.
  — Hannah Ewens, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2023
• Toward the end of the 17th century, the British blended spices from their own colonies into a mixed spice used to flavor meat and fish.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2024
• It is thought to be the first time a photo issued by the British royal family has been recalled in this way.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2024
• The Van de Velde father-and-son team invented the British seascape tradition.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Oct. 2023
• Clear shares how the British cycling team had never won the Tour de France and only had one single gold medal in the Olympics in over a hundred years.
  — Ken Sterling, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• That was the main criticism that the British designer had received.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 18 Sep. 2023
• The wider Python franchise is enshrined in the British media royalty.
  — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 13 Feb. 2024
• On Wednesday, as early reviews of the show appeared in the British news media, some critics were scathing.
  — Alex Marshall, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• That was 2016, seven years after Stewart Cink captured the British Open.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
• The trip to France and Germany is being made at the request of the British government and at the invitations of the two governments, the palace said.
  — Danica Kirka, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2023
• In one video that led to him being ousted from the British version of Big Brother, he was seen hitting a woman with a belt.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2024
• Large and destructive waves may accompany the storm surge near the coast of the British Virgin Islands.
  — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2024
• The Firm, the British press and Britain in general make a lot of money from the continued presence of the royal family.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• Ezra Collective the British jazz quintet who took home the 2023 Mercury Prize, have announced a new album.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 18 June 2024
• George originally rose to fame as the lead singer of the British band Culture Club in the 1980s and eventually branched out as a solo artist.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
• In the world of The Ministry of Time, the British government has discovered the technology for time travel.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 20 July 2024
• Daniel Lee's Burberry gives the British label a new look that so far feels like a return to heritage classics with some modern twists.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Feb. 2023
• But this interpretation of the British and French elections is a mirage.
  — Aron Solomon, Newsweek, 9 July 2024
• Princess Beatrice is pregnant with her second child — and the new addition to the royal family will shift the line of succession to the British throne.
  — Rachel Burchfield, People.com, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024