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Example sentences for "the country"

  • Gordon Wright, who was a dogged pedestrian, always enjoyed doing his ten miles, and Longueville, who was an incorrigible stroller, felt a keen relish for the picturesqueness of the country.

  • On going down to Gordon's house in the country, he was conscious of a good deal of eagerness to know what had become of that latent irritation of which Blanche had given him a specimen.

  • On the second day after leaving our canoes we found that the whole character of the country changed.

  • He would be obliged if Professor Challenger would give the latitude and the longitude of the country in which prehistoric animals were to be found.

  • He had sisters and pets, and once lived in the country.

  • They could hear Mr. Flushing flowing on, now about his wife, now about art, now about the future of the country, little meaningless words floating high in air.

  • My mother thought music wasn't manly for boys; she wanted me to kill rats and birds--that's the worst of living in the country.

  • You have never guessed, perhaps, at all the romances that go on in the heart of the country.

  • I stood not on the order of my going; and a moment after, I was on the pavement of Castle Street, and the lighted windows shone down on me, and were crossed by ironical shadows of those who had remained behind.

  • Put it anywhere between fifteen and fifty thousand; it is certainly not less.

  • Well, sir,' said he, 'we are well out of that!

  • I am a traveller, sir,' said I, 'and a total stranger in this part of the country.

  • He declared he would shoot me unless I gave him the ivory and then cleared out of the country, because he could do so, and had a fancy for it, and there was nothing on earth to prevent him killing whom he jolly well pleased.

  • The sun too much for him, or the country perhaps.

  • In the country, they have often a bewitching simplicity of character; but, in the cities, they have all the airs and ignorance of the ladies who give the tone to the circles of the large trading towns in England.

  • I, therefore, with my usual impetuosity, sold my commission, and travelled into the interior parts of the country, to lay out my money to advantage.

  • But, not to intrude on your patience, I retired to the track of land which I had purchased in the country, and my time passed pleasantly enough while I cut down the trees, built my house, and planted my different crops.

  • My eldest brother was articled to a neighbouring attorney, the shrewdest, and, I may add, the most unprincipled man in that part of the country.

  • So the king hastened in the matter and sent to demand her of her sire, who required of him an hundred thousand dinars paid down to his daughter's dowry.

  • Some are, moreover, striking and novel, especially parts of the series entitled King Shah Bakht and his Wazir Al- Rahwan (pp.

  • Said the merchant, "O my lord, this youth had a brother and I in my haste cast the twain into the sea.

  • Quoth the merchant in himself, "Indeed, I have done a foul deed by taking it without his permission.

  • Still, when we stopped at villages and wood-yards, I could not help lolling carelessly upon the railings of the boiler deck to enjoy the envy of the country boys on the bank.

  • The country about it is exceptionally productive.

  • Both of these river towns have been retired to the country by that cut-off.

  • There had been three alternatives, London, Bath, or another house in the country.

  • Esdr 5:46 And so dwelt the priests and the Levites and the people in Jerusalem, and in the country, the singers also and the porters; and all Israel in their villages.

  • Esdr 6:23 Then commanded king Darius to seek among the records at Babylon: and so at Ecbatane the palace, which is in the country of Media, there was found a roll wherein these things were recorded.

  • No, but my mother is," he said; "she still lives at the old home in the country.

  • She was a beautiful girl, he said, and the greatest belle in the country round.

  • The country here is rich and pleasant, but you must pass through rough and dangerous places before you reach the end of your journey.

  • Everything is green here, while in the country of the Munchkins blue was the favorite color.

  • It is exactly in the center of the country, and is ruled by Oz, the Great Wizard I told you of.

  • That will be easy," replied the man, "for when she knows you are in the country of the Winkies she will find you, and make you all her slaves.

  • The South is the country of the Quadlings.

  • By the natives of the country, as well as by the rest of the brethren, they are looked upon as superior beings; and rightly too, for Nature seems to have crowned them in her own true way.

  • About midday I began to examine my map and to question my guide, who at last fell on his knees and confessed that he knew nothing of the country in which we were.

  • One of them said it was as good as a day in the country just to look at her.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the country" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    the air; the end; the image; the mountain; the other; the presence; the serpent; the time; the tree; the whole; then being; then called; then drew; then know; then laid; then once; then says; then the; then told; then took; then verily; theoretical knowledge; there are; there has; these animals; these conditions