How to Use the country in a Sentence

the country

noun

• Here, the best back road ghost stories from across the country.
  — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 17 Aug. 2023
• Healy later revealed that the group was able to leave the country that night at 5 a.m.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Peoplemag, 22 July 2023
• Pexels Georgia—say it with us: the country, not the state—has buzz.
  — Brett Braley, Robb Report, 11 Jan. 2024
• Deadly storms this spring have killed dozens of people across a wide swath of the country.
  — CBS News, 20 Apr. 2023
• The clashes have since spread to several parts of the country.
  — Samy Magdy, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2023
• Parents in some corners of the country are concerned by the spike.
  — Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2024
• In some corners of the country, however, the right to vote had not followed the right to play ball.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
• Not to mention, these panfish can be caught all over the country.
  — Don Wirth, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2024
• These are adult athletes at the top women’s swim program in the country.
  — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• But the appointment of a woman to the Court opened countless doors to women all across the country.
  — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 1 Dec. 2023
• Americans across the country may get a chance to see the northern lights this weekend.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 10 May 2024
• Levels of gun violence surged across the country and in Arizona at the start of 2020 and remain high.
  — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2024
• There’s armed militias outside drag shows, in certain parts of the country.
  — Charlie H. Stern, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2023
• Palacios was the first-ever Nicaraguan to win the title and marks the country's fifth time placing in the semifinals.
  — Jenna Wang, Peoplemag, 19 Nov. 2023
• From its first appearance in Colorado in the late 1960s, CWD has crawled steadily across the country.
  — Erika Howsare, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2023
• Across the country, 24 million viewers – about a third of the population – tuned in to watch.
  — Issy Ronald, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
• Other polls suggest that would not happen if the country holds a free and fair election.
  — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 10 May 2024
• Nine of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in the country’s history have occurred in the past 16 years.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023
• In fact, Toledo's real estate market was ranked best in the country in 2024.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 27 Apr. 2024
• One high-profile actress who will star in a movie shot in the country next year opted not to have her name used at the festival.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
• Minutes from downtown, the Blue Ridge Parkway is one of the country’s most beautiful drives.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 24 Dec. 2023
• Since 2020, a growing number of cities across the country have begun to pilot these programs.
  — Time, 12 July 2023
• Louder, more widespread calls for donations can be heard around the country.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 17 Nov. 2023
• It’s been a quarter century since England was rocked by one of the most high-profile killings in the country’s history.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 27 Apr. 2024
• For the next three years Paula Kissinger took the initiative in trying to get the family out of the country, writing to a cousin in New York about immigrating.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Wright won a state title in the indoor 55-meter dash as a sophomore at Southern in Durham, North Carolina, and had one of the 10 best times in the country as a junior.
  — David Wilson, Miami Herald, 27 Apr. 2024
• But the event has been delayed, at a time when Mr. Blinken’s heavy travel schedule has repeatedly taken him out of the country.
  — Reid J. Epstein, New York Times, 10 May 2024
• In fact, almost 60 percent of U.S. consumers plan to take a trip within their state, while 18 percent will travel outside of the country.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 3 Oct. 2023
• Find out what other lottery players around the country have done with their winnings below.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
• In the mid-to-late 20th century, America closed most of the country's mental hospitals.
  — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 16 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024