COMPATRIOT in a Sentence

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10 example sentences for COMPATRIOT, such as:

1. I am delighted to meet a compatriot.
2. He believes that he and his compatriot student are the future leader.
3. He was using the phrase to exhort his compatriots to prepare for war, to engage in the struggle for freedom.
4. de Treville that his young compatriot, having something important to communicate, solicited a private audience.

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 Meanings and Examples of COMPATRIOT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
compatriot
 n.  person from one's own country; colleague; somebody from one's own country; a fellow-countryman
Classic Sentence:
1  Pardon me," said he, smiling, "pardon me my dear compatriot, but I had wholly forgotten you.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 3 THE AUDIENCE
2  de Treville that his young compatriot, having something important to communicate, solicited a private audience.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 10 A MOUSETRAP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
3  This lackey was my compatriot; and we became the more intimate from there being many resemblances of character between us.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 25 PORTHOS
4  In addition to this, after a half hour's conversation d'Artagnan was convinced that Milady was his compatriot; she spoke French with an elegance and a purity that left no doubt on that head.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 31 ENGLISH AND FRENCH
5  I am delighted to meet a compatriot.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXVIII
6  Treville understood admirably the war method of that period, in which he who could not live at the expense of the enemy must live at the expense of his compatriots.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE
7  It is true that this provincial was a Gascon; and that, particularly at this period, the compatriots of d'Artagnan had the reputation of not being easily intimidated.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 2 THE ANTECHAMBER OF M. DE TREVILLE
Example Sentence:
1  He believes that he and his compatriot student are the future leader.
2  He was using the phrase to exhort his compatriots to prepare for war, to engage in the struggle for freedom.
3  Inside the paper, the editorialists urged their compatriots to "stop behaving like the last representatives of a besieged Gaulish village".