Use americans in a sentence
Sentences starting with americans
- Americans were overwhelmed with questions, taunts, threats, misrepresentations, the outgrowth of ignorance, and ignoring worse than ignorance, from every class of Englishmen. [6]
- Americans intending to spend a year or so in European hotels will do well to copy this bill and carry it along. [5]
- Americans felt a profound pity for Belgium. [9]
- Americans and Englishmen often join one or another of the five corps. [5]
- Americans were absorbed in the great liberal movement begun under the leadership of President Roosevelt, the result of which was to transform democracy from a static to a pragmatic and evolutionary conception,--in order to meet and correct new and unforeseen evils. [9]
- Americans are not Englishmen, and American humor is not English humor; but both the American and his humor had their origin in England, and have merely undergone changes brought about by changed conditions and a new environment. [5]
- Americans keep cool, but look cheeky. [11]
- Americans know Chester better than most other old towns in England, because they so frequently stop there awhile on their way from Liverpool to London. [6]
- Americans are not acquainted with the British-Boer war of 1881; but its history is interesting, and could have been instructive to Jameson if he had been receptive. [5]
Sentences ending with americans
- And I ask you to regard with some leniency customs which must be strange to Americans. [9]
- As it was, we stopped what might have been our murder by saying it would be wiser to hold us as hostages, and that we were Americans. [11]
- War is a very old story, but it is a new one to this generation of Americans. [6]
- They were of various nationalities, but we were the only Americans. [5]
- He spoke to Tories, but he forgot that Tories were Americans. [9]
- It's a pity they couldn't do the acquiring, and let out the use of their learning to a few bright Americans. [8]
- Our adversaries think they can gain a point if they could force me to openly deny the charge, by which some degree of offence would be given to the Americans. [7]
- You stop at the Schreiber--you'll find it full of Americans. [5]
- The toastmaster introduced the guest of the evening with a high tribute to his place in American literature, saying that he was dear to the hearts of all Americans. [5]
- They fought all the fighting that was done, they shed and spilt all the blood that was spilt, in securing to us the invaluable liberties which are incorporated in the Declaration of Independence; but they were not Americans. [5]
Short sentences using americans
- Look at the South Americans. [9]
- To-morrow we shall be Americans. [9]
- All were Americans. [9]
- No Americans there! [5]
Sentences containing americans two or more times
- I hear everywhere that the Americans like this, and do not like that; and I am sorry to say that some artists, who have done better things, paint professedly to suit Americans, and not to express their own conceptions of beauty. [4]
More example sentences with the word americans in them
- We have been wont to think of all the British as aristocrats, while they have returned the compliment by visualizing all Americans as plutocrats--despite the fact that one-tenth of our population is said to own nine-tenths of all our wealth! [9]
- Perhaps, after a while, those Americans will come back and give New York also a good underground system. [5]
- Carlyle was truthful when calm, but give him Americans enough and bricks enough and he could have taken medals himself. [5]
- All the portraits were recognizable as dead Americans of distinction, and yet, through labeling added, by a daring hand, they were all doing duty here as "Earls of Rossmore. [5]
- But if it were otherwise, I did not suppose that Americans objected to rank. [4]
- The station buildings were long, low huts, made of sundried, mud-colored bricks, laid up without mortar (adobes, the Spaniards call these bricks, and Americans shorten it to 'dobies). [5]
- She said we were in a fix, and how were we going to explain, if the princess should arrive before the rightful Americans came? [5]
- In the French war, when all the rest of us Royal Americans were squabbling with his Majesty's officers out of England, and cursing them at mess, they could never be got to fight with Jack, tho' he gave them ample provocation. [9]
- All this new vision of mine was for him, for the coming generation, the soil in which it must be sown, the Americans of the future. [9]
- There were two very pleasant Americans, who spoke American, going on in the diligence at half-past five in the morning, on their way over the Simplex. [4]
- It is still very amusing to me to see how you Americans move about with the seasons, just like the barbarians of Turkestan, half the year in summer camps and half the year in winter camps. [4]
- However puerile the undertaking, De Lemos at Natchez and Carondelet at New Orleans had not the reputation of sleeping at their posts, and their hatred for Americans was well known. [9]
- We have been told that the Americans are very fond of readings. [4]
- I was put to very small pains to rout my instructor out of all his positions, because indolence, and lack of interest in the question, and contempt for the Americans, had made him neglect the study of it. [9]
- This applies also to the small capitalists, the owners of the coffee plantations, as well as to those Americans in Mexico who are not capitalists but wage earners. [9]
- It will occur to the charitable that the Americans are at a disadvantage in this little international "tiff. [4]
- All Americans want to go to Washington. [4]
- But we ought to be pleased with it, nevertheless, for we have been in no country yet where we have been so kindly received, and where we felt that to be Americans was a sufficient visa for our passports. [5]
- Our Huns began to arrive, their Attilas unrecognized among them: to drive our honest Americans and Irish and Germans out of the mills by "lowering the standard of living. [9]
- I hope some time--" "Of course," Margaret said, interrupting; "all Americans expect to go to Europe. [4]
- In the seat thus pirated, sat two Americans, greatly incommoded by that woman's majestic coffin-clad feet. [5]
- I am writing this chapter partly for the satisfaction of abusing that accomplished knave Billfinger, and partly to show whosoever shall read this how Americans fare at the hands of the Paris guides and what sort of people Paris guides are. [5]
- There are some things which, for the credit of America, should be left unsaid, perhaps; but these very things happen sometimes to be the very things which, for the real benefit of Americans, ought to have prominent notice. [5]
- They know whether they are restless or contented, and what examples they set to the peoples who get their ideas of republican simplicity and virtue from the Americans who sojourn among them. [4]
- His Majesty pampers these d--d Americans, is too lenient by far. [9]
- All Americans went there in those days, as they go to Madame Tussaud's in these times. [6]
- I go in there a good deal of the time, because there's so many Americans there. [5]
- On the left their Indians and burghers overlapped our second line, where Townsend with Amherst's and the Light Infantry, and Colonel Burton with the Royal Americans and Light Infantry, guarded our flank, prepared to meet Bougainville. [11]
- You Americans are the very devil for independence, Miss Manners! [9]
- I go to the reception-room a good deal of the time, because there's so many Americans there. [5]
- Lay hold of the proper agencies, and secure all the Americans you can, at once. [7]
- For he has the hearts of the English people, which George has not, and the allegiance of you Americans, which George will never have. [9]
- The Empress said the Americans were favorites in Russia, and she hoped the Russians were similarly regarded in America. [5]
- If you recall the Americans in the nineteenth century who wrote books that lived forty-two years you will have to begin with Cooper; you can follow with Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edgar Allan Poe, and there you have to wait a long time. [5]
- You admire what the Americans call scenery; we, since you provoke me to say it, love nature --I mean its individual, almost personal manifestations. [4]
- I do think the Americans are the biggest fools on earth. [4]
- Your fathers fought that we Americans might inherit the earth--" He stopped abruptly. [9]
- You notice, too, that the types are not so distinctively American as at the Southern resort--full faces, thick necks--more like Germans than Americans. [4]
- It is said that the majority of Americans read nothing except the paper. [4]
- All great efforts that led up to the Fourth of July were made, not by Americans, but by English residents of America, subjects of the King of England. [5]
- The object of that expedition, as is well known, was to obtain the person of the Earl of Selkirk, in order to bring about the rescue of the unfortunate Americans suffering in British prisons. [9]
- It is odd that even to this day Americans still observe that immortal benefaction through English and other monarchical eyes, and have no shred of an opinion about it that they didn't get at second-hand. [5]
- I began by telling them that the Americans had paid their share of the French war, in blood and money, twice over. [9]
- It is, I suppose, the usual air of self-made Americans. [11]
- It seems to superficial observers that all Americans are born busy. [4]
- Half of the summer horde in Switzerland is made up of English people; the other half is made up of many nationalities, the Germans leading and the Americans coming next. [5]
- My arm is so much better that I was able to make a speech last night to 250 Americans. [5]
- Why 'The Tribune' should single me out in this way from the midst of a dozen Americans of higher political prominence, is a problem which I cannot solve. [5]
- It is the shop-keepers and hotels that sigh for the Americans. [4]
- When the storm shall be past he shall find us still Americans, no less devoted to the continued union and prosperity of the country than heretofore. [7]
- This country is settled by genuine Americans, who have the aboriginal primitive traits of the universal Yankee nation. [4]
- I had never seen such wild, free, magnificent horsemanship outside of a circus as these picturesquely-clad Mexicans, Californians and Mexicanized Americans displayed in Carson streets every day. [5]
- He could not see that the frequenters were greatly different at the different places; they were mostly Americans, of subdued manners and conjecturably subdued fortunes, with here and there a table full of foreigners. [8]
- The French, he says, have been celebrated chiefly for the skill of their chefs and their vaudeville actors, while in the disturbed 'speculum mundi' Americans have appeared as a collection of money grabbers whose philosophy is the dollar. [9]
- With all my sane fellow-countrymen I am glad the Americans succeeded. [11]
- Of course Livy said "No--no--we only want the book;" but he was firm, and said, "You are Americans? [5]
- Several Americans long resident in Constantinople contend that most Turks are pretty trustworthy, but few claim that the Greeks have any virtues that a man can discover--at least without a fire assay. [5]
- It gives a 'realizing sense,' as the Americans have it. [6]
- It is his privilege; and he can make capital out of it, too; he will seem, even to himself, to be different from other Americans, and better. [5]
- Already the London press, usually slow to praise Americans when strenuous for their country, has furnished its voluntary testimony. [6]
- She adores to potter around those queer places abroad where you see strange English and Germans and Americans with red books in their hands. [9]
- There is a popular notion that Americans had better marry at home. [4]
- Three of the party were tourists; Messrs. Randall and Bean, Americans, and Mr. George Corkindale, a Scotch gentleman; there were three guides and five porters. [5]
- He states his own opinions and feelings, and leaves it to be inferred that he has good grounds for adopting them; but he spares the Americans the bitterness which a detail of the circumstances would have produced. [5]
- But mainly we owe the large license of speech we enjoy to those influences and privileges common to us all as self-governing Americans. [3]
- Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone--if still alive. [5]
- Many friends came out from Vienna, including a number of visiting Americans. [5]
- There were 9 others--5 Americans from 5 States and a Scotchman, 2 Englishmen and an Irishman--all post-graduate-medical young fellows, of course--or, it could be music; but it would be bound to be one or the other. [5]
- We will set other agencies to work which shall compensate for the loss of a good many Americans. [7]
- I think that one who mixes much with Americans long resident abroad must arrive at this conclusion. [5]
- You stop at one of those big hotels over the bridge--they're packed full of Americans. [5]
- There is just one good system of rapid transit in London--the "Tube," and that, of course, had been put in by Americans. [5]
- He was one of those Americans whose habitual conception of life is unalloyed prosperity. [8]
- But the attitude of the majority of Americans toward more backward peoples is not cynical; hence there is hope that a democratic solution of the Caribbean and Central American problem may be found. [9]
- I am thinking of the great estates, some of which date from Norman times; I am thinking of the aristocracy, which we Americans repudiated in order to set up a plutocracy instead. [9]
- In his construction of the Declaration last year, he said it only meant that Americans in America were equal to Englishmen in England. [7]
- The recent development of the British Labour Party, although of deep significance to Americans, has taken place almost without comment in this country. [9]
- Of the votes of that one hundred and twenty, Judge Douglas's friends furnished twenty, to add to which there were six Americans and ninety-four Republicans. [7]
- How the Americans of culture and refinement will admire him for thus speaking in their name! [5]
- Thousands upon thousands of brave Americans have died under it for what they believed was right. [9]
- With the majority of Americans, however, the word "labour" as designating a party arouses suspicion and distrust. [9]
- We often had occasion to pity Americans whom we found traveling drearily among strangers with no friends to exchange pains and pleasures with. [5]
- The Indians were objects of curiosity for a time in London, as odd Americans have often been since, and the rank of Pocahontas procured her special attention. [4]
- The Australians did not seem to me to differ noticeably from Americans, either in dress, carriage, ways, pronunciation, inflections, or general appearance. [5]
- The Americans were not as numerous as I had expected they would be. [5]
- He said the national Exposition had drawn such multitudes of Englishmen and Americans to Paris that it would be next to impossible to find a good guide unemployed. [5]
- I only mean, Mr. Lyon," she added, with a softening of manner, "that all Americans do not think that rank covers a multitude of sins. [4]
- It was not money we coveted, we Americans, but power, the self-expression conferred by power. [9]
- It seems to me that we Americans might take a lesson from those early architects. [6]
- But all Americans may show the grief which his death inspires, for his character and fame are national property. [7]
- But there are many others, about his course upon which there is little or no disagreement amongst intelligent and patriotic Americans. [7]
- I have met many Americans there, some sojourning for a short time only, others making protracted stays, and it has been very gratifying to me to find that nearly all preserved their Americanism. [5]
- He would sell Louisiana to the Americans as a favor; they would be very, very grateful, and they would go on hating George. [9]
- You are no longer Virginians, Kentuckians, Kaskaskians, and Cahokians--you are Americans. [9]
- On this subject let me remark that there are Americans abroad in Italy who have actually forgotten their mother tongue in three months--forgot it in France. [5]
- And this I know, that when they came out again into the sunlit square they were Americans. [9]
- Many Americans who know little else of him recall the lines borrowed from him by Irving in the "Sketch-Book" and by Emerson in "Nature. [6]
- The Levant Herald is too fond of speaking praisefully of Americans to be popular with the Sultan, who does not relish our sympathy with the Cretans, and therefore that paper has to be particularly circumspect in order to keep out of trouble. [5]
- To me it is plain that he said it in a moment of excitement, when chasing Americans out of his back-yard with brickbats. [5]
- America for Americans is a motto of mine. [9]
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