How to Use nation in a Sentence

nation

noun

• It's one of the richest nations in the world.
• The President will speak to the nation tonight.
• The entire nation is celebrating the victory.
• But nation's top pitcher is back. 'Get Bo to the plate.
  — Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star, 31 May 2023
• Six eateries from the European nation made the list – three of them in the top five.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 6 June 2024
• At the funeral processions, the coffins of the Afghans were draped in green cloth but bore the flag of no nation.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2024
• How does women’s health care in the U.S. stack up to other nations?
  — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 15 Aug. 2024
• The change means nations can now apply lower tax rates to some goods.
  — Diana Baptista, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2023
• But there could and should be a resolve to recognize how all of that works against the progress of this nation.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2024
• Across both schemes, the delegates are from across the U.K.’s nations and regions.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Aug. 2023
• Prior to the 2023 Women's World Cup, those two had been the only two nations to lead the rankings.
  — Asif Burhan, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
• And so, for me, the most important thing is that the people in the film work closely with the Osage nation.
  — Sean Woods, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
• Singapore was the first nation to approve the sale of the meat, poultry and seafood clones just over two years ago.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2023
• The citizens of the richest nation in the world can and should finally put an end to it.
  — Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2023
• The United States is a nation that loves a tomato sandwich.
  — G. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 15 June 2023
• This event, known at the Baptism of Poland, is considered the birth of the modern Polish nation.
  — Danuta Hamlin, Fox News, 17 June 2023
• This is a nation that had a population of about 4.5 million at the time.
  — Stuart Anderson, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• The Olympics added a team competition to judo in 2021, and France took home gold over host nation Japan, the birthplace of the sport.
  — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 26 July 2024
• While the Big Dance captivates a nation, football is the focus in Gainesville.
  — Orlando Sentinel Podcasts, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2023
• About 30 percent of the world's nations drive on the left side of the road, known confusingly as right-hand drive, as the driver's seat is on the right side of the car.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 12 May 2023
• The United States has one of the lowest life expectancy rates among wealthy nations.
  — John Wilkerson, STAT, 8 Nov. 2023
• My friendship with Fred Moten spans a nation of Black music.
  — Harmony Holiday, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• There is one nation that was neither a subject or ally of Napoleon.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 2 Mar. 2024
• The argument was that money, like goods, should flow freely among nations.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 18 June 2023
• Cyprus is an island nation in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2024
• Related: Is today Huntsville’s last as nation’s best city to live in?
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 16 May 2023
• That, helped a new nation break free from an old one and develop into a new world power.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 29 Aug. 2023
• The incident was among a string of shootings in which the victims appear to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time in a nation plagued by gun violence.
  — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 27 June 2023
• But one thing has stayed constant: The U.S. economy has come out in a better position than other large, rich nations.
  — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 22 Oct. 2024
• Taking it as easy on America’s (and other nations’) grids will become a real challenge.
  — Peter Nelson, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024