How to Use nationality in a Sentence
nationality
noun- The country is home to five nationalities and seven languages.
- He has held French nationality for the past 20 years.
- She's American, but her parents are of Japanese nationality.
- The university has students of over 50 nationalities.
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And then, of course, there is the issue of nationality.
— Rory Smith, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022 -
Two hundred fifty one hostages from 39 nationalities were stolen from their lives and from the world on Oct. 7.
— TIME, 25 Sep. 2024 -
The name and nationality of the victim were not revealed by Viking.
— Justin Klawans, The Week, 4 Dec. 2022 -
But the nationalities of the people arriving have changed, and many no longer have any place to go.
— Colleen Long, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Nov. 2023 -
The nationality of the residents changes as new spots on the globe implode.
— Detroit Free Press, 29 Sep. 2022 -
The cause of the fire or the victims’ nationalities have not been released by the authorities.
— Gerardo Lemos, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023 -
The now 42-year-old was not prepared for the nationalities nestled there.
— David Oliver, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024 -
One of the men has Dutch nationality, two were born in Lebanon and the fourth has Egyptian citizenship.
— Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 14 Dec. 2023 -
As of Thursday that person's cause of death and nationality were not known.
— Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 3 Aug. 2023 -
There was confusion over the nationality of the other child who was not from France.
— John Leicester, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023 -
One, Tania, now battles for U.K. nationality and a proper job on the eve of Brexit.
— John Hopewell, Variety, 2 Aug. 2022 -
Fry and his colleagues came from all backgrounds, nationalities, and faiths—some had been refugees.
— Town & Country, 8 Apr. 2023 -
The thousands of names in the Aladdin files were sorted by nationality.
— The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2021 -
The city doesn’t collect data on the nationality of those who are involved in crashes.
— Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 20 Sep. 2024 -
When Serge’s friends buried him in Mexico in 1947 they were required to give him a nationality.
— Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022 -
The nationalities of those crossers are all over the map, with a very large number at the northern border being from Mexico.
— Jeremy Lott, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 June 2024 -
So far, 51 Israelis and 18 people of other nationalities who were taken by Hamas have been released as part of the cease-fire deal.
— Patrick Smith, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2023 -
Migrants from Ecuador and Haiti are the second and third biggest nationalities crossing the Darién this year, making up about 22% of those making the trek.
— Manuel Rueda, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023 -
If this film is not a mainland Chinese film, what is its nationality?
— Patrick Frater, Variety, 9 Sep. 2022 -
Experts say the type of sport, nationality, gender, and Olympic year are some factors that can cause this peak age to fluctuate.
— Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 4 Aug. 2024 -
The previous night, some Kurdish men—the same nationality as most of the people who drowned last week in the Channel—had been playing loud music in the hotel.
— Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2021 -
And with the help of– of locals, not only Israeli but other nationalities.
— Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Mar. 2024 -
All over the world, a standard bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden, a very British girl who transcended nationality.
— Town & Country, 31 Aug. 2023 -
This year’s event set a Guinness World Record for most nationalities – 135 – at a yoga session.
— Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 23 June 2023 -
One of the most prominent nationalities of immigrants at that time was Peruvian.
— Jamie Lang, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024 -
Iraq, for example, passed a series of exclusionary nationality laws modeled on the Third Reich.
— Henry A. Green, Sun Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2024
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