How to Use compatriot in a Sentence

compatriot

noun

• We watched our compatriots compete in the Olympics.
• Rana said that his compatriot who lived in Libya was the owner of the trawler.
  — Demetris Nellas, ajc, 18 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• For want of other work, McNulty joins the Army, where many of his compatriots have also wound up.
  — Giles Harvey, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• Karol joins forces with a deadpan compatriot, Mikołaj (Janusz Gajos), and returns home to a changing Warsaw.
  — Kristin M. Jones, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2023
• The first pianist to play the complete cycle from memory in concert was a German compatriot, Hans von Bülow, in the mid-1800s.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2020
• Diaz would cost 10 times less that value and is worth a punt given how things turned out with his compatriot Ronald Araujo.
  — Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• Neither did its compatriot at the other side of the intersection, which met the same fate a few seconds later.
  — Alex Davies, Wired, 6 Jan. 2021
• Boston shortstop Manny Ramírez was in his prime in the mid-2000s, and Durán dreamed of following in his compatriot’s footsteps.
  — Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 26 May 2023
• Her soccer expertise would seem a useful resource, though there’s no doubt coach Casey Stoney, an English compatriot, is in charge of the team.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2022
• When a compatriot suggested Mr. Trump would be displeased, the first man disagreed.
  — New York Times, 13 Feb. 2021
• But that wasn’t all, as Lloyd Webber also had an equally starry compatriot to join him onstage.
  — Vogue, 4 June 2022
• Her work follows in the footsteps of a compatriot from the generation before hers: Marguerite Duras.
  — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2022
• Still had only told his compatriot that Johnson was safe, but not her location.
  — Carrie Hagen, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2020
• Meanwhile, his friend and compatriot, Jerry Jones, will have to wait yet another season for a crack at the title game that has eluded the Dallas Cowboys for 27 years.
  — Dallas News, 9 Feb. 2023
• The band was also a pivotal influence on Detroit compatriot George Clinton, who fused the band's spirit into his Funkadelic work in the ‘70s.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 3 Feb. 2024
• Ohtani, who was one for two with a run batted in against Fujinami, was equally reticent to talk about his compatriot.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2023
• Meanwhile, Kander and his compatriots scrambled to secure a different way out, and found it.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024