How to Use Englishman in a Sentence

Englishman

noun
  • The first was Englishman George Raynor who led Sweden to the men's final in 1958.
    Asif Burhan, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The Englishman had three birdies on the front nine and another on the second, along with a bogey on each side of the turn.
    Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 20 July 2023
  • Still, the 32-year-old Englishman is part of an exclusive group.
    Greg Beacham, ajc, 18 June 2023
  • An Englishman who began his career with a decade of work in A.I.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The French do not like an Englishman’s rendition of Napoleon.
    Catherine Porter, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Yet, the 68-year-old Englishman seemed fully in his element as the band rolled through the 16-song main set and lengthy encore.
    Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The Englishman finished the first half with seven ball contacts and would end the game with 18 touches overall.
    Manuel Veth, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The quote comes from a poem published by Englishman Alexander Pope in 1733.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2023
  • The Englishman is in second place at 5-under-par for the tournament.
    Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • More than two feet shorter, his pint-sized craft will be even more spatially challenged for the six-foot-tall Englishman.
    Howard Walker, Robb Report, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Clegg, the sports editor, is an Englishman who lives with his family in New York.
    James Raia, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Now onto question two: hot sauce, made by an Englishman?
    Megan Wahn, Bon Appétit, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Yet the Englishman gets no pleasure out of plundering, even when there are bigger paydays on the horizon.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2024
  • French audiences got to see it for the first time in 1926, and shortly afterward, it was finally purchased by the Englishman David Tennant.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 22 June 2022
  • Liggett, an Englishman who will turn eighty shortly after this Tour concludes, has covered the Tour for more than fifty years, which is very nearly half of its hundred and ten renditions.
    Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 20 July 2023
  • The Mongol retreat marked another turning point in the Englishman’s eventful life.
    Nicholas Morton, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 July 2023
  • There was this psychology of the central performances that really intrigued me, of an Englishman in New York.
    Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2023
  • Neither driver has ever won a race, but Piastri upstaged the Englishman with a victory in a sprint race in Qatar last October.
    Brad Spurgeon, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Real has not spent extravagantly on talents in the last two windows and will see the Englishman as a calculated risk—given his standard at such a young age.
    Henry Flynn, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • The 52-year-old Englishman’s operas, orchestral and chamber works please audiences as well as picky music critics.
    Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2023
  • But the Irish O’Connor suggests otherwise, recasting that moment in history through a story about loving an Englishman who doesn’t love her back.
    Allyson McCabe, Vulture, 27 July 2023
  • Who among us is familiar with the 1894 adventure novel penned by Englishman Anthony Hope?
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But the comparison with the Englishman is specious: Conquest, a game-changing historian in his own right, didn’t have the opportunity to go to the archives in the Soviet Union.
    Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
  • This weekend, however, Ancelotti will again be able to call on the Englishman which gives his side a boost not just domestically, but also for next week's last 16 second leg decider with Leipzig.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Unconventional George Emerson, a fellow Englishman about her age and her equal in glowing handsomeness, has spelled out on his plate an enormous question mark in peas and potatoes.
    Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
  • Ultimately, his progeny flourished in the household of a wealthy Englishman.
    Julie Flavell, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Nor are there even all that many contemporaneous accounts by its riders or observers, though some of the best are by none other than Englishman Richard Burton, he of sneaking-into-Mecca fame.
    Carl Hoffman, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
  • After all, an 1838 donation from Englishman James Smithson established the Institution as it’s known today.
    Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2022
  • That little-film-that-could put Haigh on the map and secured a spot in the gay cinematic canon for its starkly visceral portrayal of the initially awkward and ultimately amorous connection between two lonesome Englishmen.
    Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • All along, this Englishman has been molding that signature stoicism into something classically American, something unmovable, mighty, historical.
    The New York Times Magazine, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022

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