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.
  • 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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