COUNTRY in a Sentence

Learn COUNTRY from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For COUNTRY, below is one of 346 sentences:
A few incidents now and then directed me, and I possessed a map of the country; but I often wandered wide from my path.

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 Meanings and Examples of COUNTRY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
country
 n.  an area outside of cities and towns
 n.  the territory occupied by a nation
Classic Sentence: (136 in 10 pages)
1  His son was bred in the service of his country, and Agatha had ranked with ladies of the highest distinction.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
2  I had a very confused knowledge of kingdoms, wide extents of country, mighty rivers, and boundless seas.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
3  A few incidents now and then directed me, and I possessed a map of the country; but I often wandered wide from my path.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
4  The prospect in front was more extensive; it commanded the whole of the valley, and reached into the country beyond.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
5  The whole country about them abounded in beautiful walks.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
6  The merest awkward country girl, without style, or elegance, and almost without beauty.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41
7  Her father was a country gentleman down in your part of the world, and was a brewer.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXII
8  I've come to the old country fur to see my gentleman spend his money like a gentleman.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XL
9  Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
10  It was never so well worth your while to get me out of this country as it is to-night.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LIII
11  We had a quiet day on the Sunday, and we rode out into the country, and then walked in the fields.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVII
12  I have been adopted by an aunt down in that part of the country, and have just finished my education there.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
13  My country rounds,' she added at length, 'brought me to Norwich, Mr. Copperfield, the night before last.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
14  Under the Prerogative Office, the country had been glorious.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
15  Insert the wedge into the Prerogative Office, and the country would cease to be glorious.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The country's trade in manufactured goods has expanded in the last ten years.
17  In those days, the trip across country was a dangerous undertaking.
18  Another poor harvest could turn the country's economy upside down.
19  Reference works on that country, when available, are full of inaccuracies.
20  The plan calls for the UN to administer the country until elections can be held.
21  To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
22  For them, the house's main value lay in its quiet country location.
23  The country's present difficulties arise from the reduced value of its money.
24  The country is sinking/plunging into an abyss of violence and lawlessness.
25  Continuing violence will retard negotiations over the country's future.
26  President Clinton is due to visit the country next month.
27  The country bestowed its highest medal on the war hero.
28  He defected from a certain country to the West.
29  His country desperately needs Western aid to restore its ailing economy.
30  The country had been declared ineligible for World Bank lending.