How to Use compatriot in a Sentence

compatriot

noun

• We watched our compatriots compete in the Olympics.
• The 28-year-old comes to the U.S. on the H-2A visa for many of the same reasons as his compatriots on the farm: money.
  — Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2024
• Rana said that his compatriot who lived in Libya was the owner of the trawler.
  — Demetris Nellas, ajc, 18 June 2023
• Fans of Friends or Game of Thrones don't have to look far to find compatriots.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Aug. 2019
• The peep-toe pump wants to show you a little more skin than its compatriots.
  — Emilia Petrarca, The Cut, 26 Mar. 2018
• The Kenyan had run much of the race alongside Ruth Chepngetich, but dropped her compatriot at the 20-mile mark.
  — George Ramsay, CNN, 4 Oct. 2020
• Galal aims to go back to Khartoum soon and make art that will get his compatriots to think about the future.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, Quartz Africa, 12 July 2019
• The force of Cooper’s will is well known to her colleagues and compatriots.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2023
• A lot of your friends, family and compatriots from the film have died.
  — Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• Soon he and his wealthy compatriots will be able to suck down all our milkshakes.
  — Drew Magary, GQ, 3 Mar. 2018
• Bahr said Jane Doe 2 and two male compatriots may have been planning to rob a ``john'' that night at the motel.
  — City News Service, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 May 2018
• Nearly half of my compatriots do not even have enough to eat.
  — Monique Clesca, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
• His compatriot Thom Yorke, of the beloved band Radiohead, plays a show of his solo work on the same stage (March 30).
  — Briana Younger, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2020
• At the end of the episode, Picard and his compatriots activate this new android and get to speak to Data again for the first time in decades.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 23 Mar. 2023
• Like many of his compatriots, Cummins was lured to MLC.
  — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024
• Your sweet-toothed compatriot clearly believes the best part of any cake is the frosting.
  — chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2021
• What’s clear is that for everyone on screen, the question of their own blood, and not just that of their compatriots, is a mystery.
  — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 16 Apr. 2020
• One of our compatriots arrives at noon to LAX to attend the Oscars.
  — Chris Morris, Orange County Register, 31 Mar. 2017
• His duo with compatriot Bruno Raberg (bass) rejuvenates the old melodies with a jolt of jazz.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2018
• Khan strives to appeal to his compatriots and families with his body of work.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• Thor’s recent compatriot and former flat-mate, as seen in Avengers: Endgame (2019), will receive a new suit of body armor in the film.
  — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2020
• The Canadian singer wowed the judges with a cover of her compatriot's self-love anthem.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2020
• For a guy who lives to obliterate the cochlea, Thurston has also never been the madman many of his punk compatriots were.
  — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 23 Jan. 2024
• There is never any doubt that Daryl and his compatriots are in France, and no chance this story could take place anywhere else.
  — Jessica Liese, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
• Paul and Artie were good kids from Queens that didn’t fit in that typical wild rock-star lifestyle like some of their compatriots.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2024
• Miyako would not have to travel far to visit her male compatriot.
  — Alex Horton, ajc, 22 Apr. 2018
• The memory of Hitler, and of the recent war, haunted Adenauer and his compatriots too.
  — Anne Applebaum, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
• However, when the fireworks are over and the last of the hamburgers have been grilled, bid farewell to your compatriots and settle in for a night of Netflix.
  — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 5 July 2019
• And his security forces, who are tasked with the nasty business of defending a tyrant from his own compatriots, earn as little as ten dollars per month.
  — Christopher Sabatini, Foreign Affairs, 9 Oct. 2024
• Also in 2023, To’s compatriot Chow Yun Fat had also spoken about censorship.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024