How to Use British in a Sentence

British

noun

• That was just a few days before she was supposed to fly to Vancouver, British Columbia, to see Swift.
  — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 10 Dec. 2024
• Glass sponge reefs found off British Columbia’s north coast are among the oldest in the entire ocean and have survived for more than 9,000 years.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
• But the farther north the British went from the King’s Bridge the shakier their hold was.
  — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• What has turned the tide in the right direction for you since the British Grand Prix?
  — Michael Loré, Robb Report, 31 Oct. 2023
• Photographs of protests line the walls, and the blue flag of British Hong Kong flies over the cash register.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 27 May 2024
• This marks a new era for British Vogue’s first Black editor-in-chief.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 10 Nov. 2023
• The British were rather dominant in this competition, with five of the 10 Olympic medals awarded in the sport going to the UK.
  — Jack Hillcox, CNN, 8 Aug. 2024
• The findings were published in the British Medical Journal on March 27.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024
• During the first week of September 1958, keen observers spotted hundreds of rare birds in the British Isles.
  — Maddie Bender, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023
• Kylie Jenner is on the cover of the September issue of British Vogue, and the reactions to her photos have been…not great, to say the least.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 15 Aug. 2024
• He was appointed Order of the British Empire for his services to drama in 2023.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Nov. 2023
• Having taken Seamus outside the wake, the British flipped him by offering the prospect of a better life for him and his wife in London.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
• Penélope told Contact Music in 2008, per British Vogue.
  — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 16 Dec. 2023
• The British Academy has unveiled various changes and tweaks to its rules for the upcoming 2024 film awards.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 July 2023
• The nation – which was colonized by the British in 1788 – has long debated whether a long-distance monarch is still needed.
  — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 14 July 2024
• When speaking to British Vogue for this week's cover story, the actress and singer, 32, opened up about how her fiancé, 38, is handling life as a girl dad.
  — Emma Aerin Becker, Peoplemag, 2 July 2024
• Aero reports that JetBlue wants to start a code-sharing agreement with British Airways.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 23 May 2024
• The growth of weeds on land across southern Ukraine is probably hindering the progress of fighting, the British Defense Ministry said.
  — Eve Sampson, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
• According to British Vogue, Elvis went to great lengths to keep his famous hairstyle from falling flat, even wearing a support wire to keep it in place.
  — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2024
• Shakira went full glam for the outing—at the British Grand Prix—opting for bronzy makeup and a voluminous curly hairdo.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 July 2023
• According to one 2022 study in the British Journal of Nutrition, less than a third of dairy alternatives are iodised.
  — Harriet Marsden, theweek, 10 Nov. 2024
• The British Museum was informed of the discovery, according to the estate.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2024
• At the tail end of 2023, British Vogue’s shopping editor dampened her forefinger and raised it forthright into the air.
  — Daniel Rodgers, Glamour, 10 Apr. 2024
• There, British Airways was the dominant carrier with 50 percent of all flights.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2024
• On a recent morning, India Gate, a war memorial built by the British, was invisible amid the plumes of toxic haze.
  — Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
• The study observed 11 northern and southern resident killer whales off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 May 2024
• But by the end of the nineteenth century, economic failures and a defeat at the hands of the British in the Opium Wars had brought China to a point of existential crisis.
  — Rana Mitter, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• But the Fourth did not signify the final victory of the American Revolution against the British.
  — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 3 July 2024
• Under the British Raj, forests were cleared to develop settlements and set up plantations, resulting in the loss of habitat for big cats like the cheetah.
  — Dhruv Tikekar, CNN, 12 July 2023
• In addition, a teenager in British Columbia was infected more than two weeks ago and has been in critical care since.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024