How To Use Compatriot In A Sentence

From the past sorrows, we derive our self-respect to love our compatriots.
Anyone who has once taken up the WORD can never again evade it; a writer is not the detached judge of his compatriots and contemporaries, he is an accomplice to all the evil committed in his native land or by his countrymen. Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture
Cleopatra _Cleopatra_ compatriot _compatriot_ gratis _gratis_ or _grahtis_ harem _harem_ or _hahrem_ heinous _hanous_ hiatus _hiatus_ implacable _implakable_ nape _nap_ née _na_ négligé _naglezha'_ patron _patron_ protégé _protazha'_ résumé _razuma'_ tenacious _tenashus_ tomato _tomato_ or _tomahto_ valet _va'la_ or _val'et_ vase _vas, vahz_, or _vaz_ veracious _verashus_ vivacious _vivashus_ Practical Grammar and Composition
John smirked knowingly as his compatriots gasped in unison.
For the athlete, if he's lucky, it's a medal, world recognition, splashy endorsement deals, the adoration of millions of compatriots, whatever.

When Ms. Aston and her compatriots appeared in traditional Martha Graham attire, Bracie and Ashleigh went wild; they fist-pumped eagerly at their mother's cartwheel. Arts Patrons Kick In a Dance Performance
Horace Greeley, editor of the "New York Tribune," the leading Republican journal of the North, contented himself with referring to Brown and his followers as "mistaken men," but added that he would "not by one reproachful word disturb the bloody shrouds wherein John Brown and his compatriots are sleeping. The end of an era,
Cortez's case struck a responsive and sympathetic chord in the hearts of his compatriots.
The second Sunday after Easter is now dedicated to the Divine Mercy - a new feast day instituted by John Paul himself based on the visions of his sainted compatriot, Faustina Kowalska.
He has outwitted the political Opposition, scorned the result of an election and killed his defenceless compatriots. Times, Sunday Times
Make no mistake, Harris is still sneering at the uncouth accents of his compatriots, except now he calls them consumers instead of hicks and they live in a subdivision instead of a holler.
It is difficult to escape the conclusion that he has a mental and emotional block about competing with his compatriots.
Chris Robertson of Australia beat his compatriot Chris Dittmar in the final.
He believes that he and his compatriot student are the future leader.
Like many of her compatriots, she has been away from home a long time.
Chris Robertson of Australia beat his compatriot Chris Dittmar in the final.
There's a subliminal message to my compatriots in this video too.
She said the song was a tribute to relatives and compatriots whose lives were turned upside down more than 70 years ago. Times, Sunday Times
The way he strokes the ball around a football pitch is akin to the way his compatriot van Gogh stoked a paintbrush over a canvass.
The Chinese tradition of racing memorializes the spirit of Qu Yuan, who is remembered for his self-sacrifice, his steadfast morality, the power of his writing, and his concern for his fallen compatriots.
The Maritime Province was both the temporary home for working-class compatriots from the homeland and the base for patriots residing abroad.
He was ‘mellow’ by now according to one of the compatriots who had accompanied him to Scotland.
His fury at his compatriots is only equalled by his contempt for the Americans.
The two losers got to follow in the footsteps of their fellow compatriots by walking the plank.
The comment could also offend his Swiss compatriots, many of whom live in urban hill areas. Times, Sunday Times
There comes a point in the history of choral music where works from different nations sound more like each other than like compatriot pieces of different genres. Times, Sunday Times
Reid is one such fellow, his name frequently prompting the response 'Who?', even from those of his compatriots with a passing interest in wheels and fast living.
The comment could also offend his Swiss compatriots, many of whom live in urban hill areas. Times, Sunday Times
Maintenant _entièrement_ occupé [6] du soin d'améliorer ses terres, d'en varier le produit, d'ouvrir des routes, des communications, il donne à ses compatriotes un exemple utile, et qui sans doute sera suivi. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
The participants going in wore full equipment, including ventilators, and had it checked by their compatriots going in.
I guess this is a tad defensive, but I don't like seeing my compatriots dissed by someone who should know better.
He has outwitted the political Opposition, scorned the result of an election and killed his defenceless compatriots. Times, Sunday Times
Cleopatra _Cleopatra_ compatriot _compatriot_ gratis _gratis_ or _grahtis_ harem _harem_ or _hahrem_ heinous _hanous_ hiatus _hiatus_ implacable _implakable_ nape _nap_ née _na_ négligé _naglezha'_ patron _patron_ protégé _protazha'_ résumé _razuma'_ tenacious _tenashus_ tomato _tomato_ or _tomahto_ valet _va'la_ or _val'et_ vase _vas, vahz_, or _vaz_ veracious _verashus_ vivacious _vivashus_ Practical Grammar and Composition
Cleopatra _Cleopatra_ compatriot _compatriot_ gratis _gratis_ or _grahtis_ harem _harem_ or _hahrem_ heinous _hanous_ hiatus _hiatus_ implacable _implakable_ nape _nap_ née _na_ négligé _naglezha'_ patron _patron_ protégé _protazha'_ résumé _razuma'_ tenacious _tenashus_ tomato _tomato_ or _tomahto_ valet _va'la_ or _val'et_ vase _vas, vahz_, or _vaz_ veracious _verashus_ vivacious _vivashus_ Practical Grammar and Composition
Currently, he has come back to his home country to help boost the national spirit of his compatriots.
In the course of his account of the sojourn at Marienbad, this writer speaks of Chopin's polichinades: "He imitated then this or that famous artist, the playing of certain pupils or compatriots, belabouring the keyboard with extravagant gestures, a wild [echevele] and romantic manner, which he called aller a la chasse aux pigeons."] Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
I think our compatriots in the press are mouthpieces for governments.
For the U.S. to take sides would inevitably deepen Arab and Palestinian divides, which is an unwelcome policy to moderate Arabs and Palestinians alike, who do not want and could not be perceived by their people as advocating dialogue and negotiations with the Israeli occupying power but willing to go into confrontation with their compatriot political protagonists. Abusing the Arab Peace Initiative
Their compatriots understood that they had to take time to counsel them and approach the subject much more obliquely than would the Western professional.
The tartan taunts did not prevent him turning to a compatriot in his hour of need.
(Soundbite of song from album “Empty Houses Are Lonely”) CHRISTIAN HOARD reporting: On first listen to Tom Brosseau's mostly acoustic songs, his biggest asset seems to be a voice that recalls the androgynous swoops and swoons of sensitive compatriots, like Jeff Buckley and Devendra Banhart. Tom Brosseau: 'Empty Houses Are Lonely'
I fear that the million of whatever currency it is dazzles the British literary world to such an extent that the rest of the laureate's author-compatriots often remain quasi-invisible.
But while some may think that Kevin Terrell and his compatriots are all talk, there have been numerous examples of this type of far right extremism that have either led to violence or were narrowly prevented from leading to violence. Matt Kane: The Enemy from Within: Why We Cannot Focus Solely on Islamic Terrorism
Subdued like many of his compatriots early on, Ballack grew stronger as the competition progressed, netting match-winners and proffering the kind of midfield creativity that Germany so clearly lacked.
It comes as a pleasant bonus to find that moderate wine drinkers are less likely to develop dementia than their non-drinking or heavy-drinking compatriots.
Few of her compatriots - those watching and those queuing overnight for a glimpse of the show courts - are able to do that.
And unlike his two compatriots, Mehrjui's work is mostly devoid of the artful interplay between life and art that is so characteristic of their work.
I can't claim to be a socialist if I'm not prepared to help my fellow compatriot when I can.
I will die here as a martyr," he had declared in February, when compatriots inspired by the region's antiauthoritarian fervor rose in fury against him. Eccentric and Brutal, He Met End as a Fugitive
Sandeep seemed to be happy with the silver, after quickly drawing his final round game against compatriot K. Narayanan, who won the bronze with five points.
The Frenchwoman then suggested that her compatriots may simply have voted no because they do not know enough about Europe.
From the fleshpots of London to the fields of Derbyshire: this shirt (and its many, many compatriots) has been on quite some journey.
Prince Abdullah, the effective regent of Saudi Arabia, placed a soft, plump hand on his young compatriot's shoulder, smiled and spoke of friendship and loyalty.
How intolerant not to appreciate being called "victim" and "potato", standard invectives patriotic German Muslims are fond of hurling toward their autochthonal compatriots. The Editrix' Roncesvalles
It wasn't his fault that he liked you more than a compatriot and did a truly contumelious act out of selfish passionate feelings towards you.
Are all Chinese compatriots on both sides, and if China's sovereignty and territory to be split and went to war and fratricidal on both sides of the Strait is extremely unfortunate.
Finally making up his mind, he pauses, gives his compatriot a military salute and finally, leaving him to himself, departs.
Richard concludes his essay with an observation that I wish conservative democratic majoritarians (and their democratic compatriots on the left) would take to heart.
He reestablished the Polish language in the schools and churches of Posen, that is of Prussian-Poland, nominated a Polish ecclesiastic to the archbishopric of that province, and conferred so many court dignities, government offices, and decorations upon the compatriots of the fair Jenny, as to give rise to the remark that the best road to imperial preferment at Berlin was to add the Polish and feminine termination of “ska” to one's name. The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe
Since my pocketbook is not penalized I´m personally pleased but feel sorry for my compatriots who are trying to scratch out a living. Tourism in Southern Mexico
She said the song was a tribute to relatives and compatriots whose lives were turned upside down more than 70 years ago. Times, Sunday Times
I ordered the spicy Reuben (made with tempeh, which is like tofu but a bit stronger) with a side salad, while my compatriots got a vegetarian burger with cheese and a bowl of potato-leek soup with a salad. Stories from The Sun
And your ideological compatriots in the media might not be able to get up much of a head of steam banging the table for a bunch of hot dog magnates.
They have proven time and again that they are head and shoulders above their sporting compatriots in Ireland.
But Berg and his compatriots renamed the storefront "Trip without a Ticket," and they focused much of their energy on refining the interactions between themselves and "customers," developing a repertoire of life-acting techniques that would more consistently bring visitors 'deeply held assumptions about money and property to consciousness. 46 Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
In Berlin, the Danes were the big winners, with Susanne Bier carrying off best director for In a Better World while her compatriot – and now sworn enemy after comments made in that notorious Cannes press conference – Lars von Trier won best film for Melancholia. Trailer trash
The prohibition of the use of fleshmeat and milk at one meal: the hebdomadary symposium of incoordinately abstract, perfervidly concrete mercantile coexreligionist excompatriots: the circumcision of male infants: the supernatural character of Judaic scripture: the ineffability of the tetragrammaton: the sanctity of the sabbath. Ulysses
Back then, a cowpoke would rope a steer, wrestle it to the ground, and a compatriot would use an iron heated over a campfire to burn a mark into the cow's hide.
The comment could also offend his Swiss compatriots, many of whom live in urban hill areas. Times, Sunday Times
He shared with a growing number of his compatriots an anxiety about the insensitive damage being inflicted on large parts of France. The Government and Politics of France
It is entirely natural for Indians to take pride in the successes of their erstwhile compatriots abroad.
On Friday morning they gathered on a scruffy beach in Libreville, sang and laid flowers in the water for their compatriots who had died in 1993, shortly after taking off from the Gabonese capital for a World Cup qualifier in Senegal. Zambia 0-0 Ivory Coast (7-8 on pens) | Africa Cup of Nations final report
Its sister ship turned also and followed its compatriot out of the safety of their long-time hiding place.
He died young, his health and his fortune exhausted by an allegiance to a prince who was neither his compatriot nor his friend. Times, Sunday Times
But, it seems, fans of the present generation have time only for their own compatriots.
At the end of their contracts, his two compatriots headed home for Spain, while Martinez signed for another four years.
By contrast, Juppe gets a friendly nod from less than 30 percent of his compatriots.
Spears really did build a machine that he claimed filled up with a spiritual essence evacuated from the womb of his devoted compatriot, a lady never named in any source I could find. Chris Adrian discusses his first novel, Gob's Grief.
Obama was less clear than his compatriot from Illinois, Durbin, and Levin in repeating the MSM garbage that Democrats must support the troops by giving Bush whatever he asks for to continue the war but when he said Democrats would not play chicken with the troops it was pretty much the same bushwa in my view. Happy Hour Roundup
The disco-loving teenager became a team player, and the bond between her and her compatriots was highlighted in Sydney.
Only if we completely devote ourselves to technological revolution can we feed our many starving compatriots.
The Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea cannot accept, any more than our compatriots, that another Conference should be arranged by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam profiting from the support of the Soviet Union and the allies of this great Power. Cambodia in Modern History: Beauty and Darkness
One of my compatriots is working on a plan to get us back to the level of protection before Hurricane Katrina.
To many of his compatriots, this intransigent defender of French grandeur saved the honor of the nation during World War II and restored its institutions and status.
He was the only national newspaperman along with provincial compatriot JBG Thomas of the Western Mail to cover the full Lions tours of 1950 and 1955, was for more than 30 years the only begetter of the invaluable Rothmans Rugby Annual. Tons of reasons to support the monarchs of sport | Frank Keating
Hussain and his two compatriots offered an impressive level of virtuosity - the tabla employing a rich vocabulary of sounds and intricate, continually nuanced rhythms; the singers embarking on long improvisatory half-chants, their bodies cupped around a sound that they seemed to be bringing forth with conductor-like gestures of the hands. NSO review: Tabla meets West as 'India' concert strikes a crossover convergence
If his native tongue did not qualify him to join his compatriots in singing the anthem, his body language was fluent enough.
After two rounds, however, he found himself seven strokes adrift of Bobby Clampett, his unheralded American compatriot.
Cleopatra _Cleopatra_ compatriot _compatriot_ gratis _gratis_ or _grahtis_ harem _harem_ or _hahrem_ heinous _hanous_ hiatus _hiatus_ implacable _implakable_ nape _nap_ née _na_ négligé _naglezha'_ patron _patron_ protégé _protazha'_ résumé _razuma'_ tenacious _tenashus_ tomato _tomato_ or _tomahto_ valet _va'la_ or _val'et_ vase _vas, vahz_, or _vaz_ veracious _verashus_ vivacious _vivashus_ Practical Grammar and Composition
The ‘rule of law’ would give way to a ‘rule of men’ who tyrannized their wives and their compatriots.
Algunos compatriotas han sido conmovidos por la apariencia del ex dictador, al que en la televisión se lo ve como un anciano que apenas camina con bastón o en silla de ruedas, que padece varias enfermedades (próstata, diabetes y que tuvo derrame cerebral). Global Voices in English » Bolivia: The Return of the “Minister of Cocaine”
At dinner parties during the rest of the year, they vie to one-up each other with stories of malaria, harrowing airplane flights and close calls with venomous snakes in what most of their compatriots would regard as Third World hell-holes. For Italians, Summer Starts at the Beach
Under the banner of temperance and local prohibition of the sale of intoxicating beverages, Norwegian politicians gained the support of their compatriots and were elected to public office.
Welsh Wales to English London, and gives us in _My Neighbours_ (MELROSE) a further collection of sketches pleasantly calculated to prove that the general detestability of his compatriots remains unchanged by their migration from a whitewashed cottage to a villa in Suburbia. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 3rd, 1920
An astronaut is sucked into a wormhole and ends up breaking out of prison and being ensconced on a living spaceship called Moya with the usual ragtag group of compatriots, many of them created by Jim Henson's Creature Workshop. Michael Giltz: DVDs: "West Side Story" (Almost) Perfect In New BluRay Set
You managed to do a good deed, defeating the most sinister of dictators, who destroyed the country, killed our compatriots and wasted the wealth of the fatherland.
The council downplayed the security considerations, maintaining that any information that German repatriates might provide would ‘be more of a discouragement than of assistance to their compatriots.’
The hotel porter is always a practical man: his calling robs him of all sympathy with the hide-bound formality of his compatriots. The Angel and the Author, and others
A café owner is waging a one-woman war against the casual rudeness of her Spanish compatriots. Times, Sunday Times
Hi Lindsay, first of all, congratulations on being Canadian on a week when you and your compatriots should celebrat not just success at the Winter Olympics but the friendly way in which they were organised. Ten Things I Think I Know – The Final Countdown « Ken Wilson's Blog
I look upon all men as my compatriots.
There were speeches and champagne, and the Dane-brog was hoisted amid hurrahs of our compatriots. The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912
He shared with a growing number of his compatriots an anxiety about the insensitive damage being inflicted on large parts of France. The Government and Politics of France
For the athlete, if he's lucky, it's a medal, world recognition, splashy endorsement deals, the adoration of millions of compatriots, whatever.
Like a younger compatriot of his we know only too well, he almost winked. The Sun
Cleopatra _Cleopatra_ compatriot _compatriot_ gratis _gratis_ or _grahtis_ harem _harem_ or _hahrem_ heinous _hanous_ hiatus _hiatus_ implacable _implakable_ nape _nap_ née _na_ négligé _naglezha'_ patron _patron_ protégé _protazha'_ résumé _razuma'_ tenacious _tenashus_ tomato _tomato_ or _tomahto_ valet _va'la_ or _val'et_ vase _vas, vahz_, or _vaz_ veracious _verashus_ vivacious _vivashus_ Practical Grammar and Composition
Some of our ATV compatriots are looking for a no-holds-barred game of horsepower, and nitrous is the ultimate weapon. Power Up Your 4x4
Schmidt defeated his compatriot Hausmann in the quarter final.
His compatriots from the rebel days now thought him a nerd.
For our ride back down the mountain, we were able to commandeer a covered jeep to carry a few of our more beleaguered compatriots, but the rest of us begrudgingly climbed back into the rear of our now-notorious truck.
He believes that he and his compatriot student are the future leader.
It is a miracle that her flimsy frame has been able to survive the extremes of weather, utter penury and the cruel sneers of her snobbish compatriots during her hellish ordeal.
Next month more than 120,000 Jerusalemites will be separated from both Jerusalem and compatriots in the West Bank.
Enescu's compatriot, Mihaela Martin, handles well the composer's demands for texture and sonority.
For a politician, there are few more glorious moments than jetting home from a despotic regime with imprisoned compatriots in tow. Times, Sunday Times
I want the cosmopolitan feel of a newspaper that I know is also read by several hundred thousand of my compatriots at least.
My dear compatriot, it is time that we did something for our country.
The Maritime Province was both the temporary home for working-class compatriots from the homeland and the base for patriots residing abroad.
Camacho joined a compatriot, Tomas Vallejos, the lock of the season to date, and Joe Marler, a rampaging young loosehead, in putting us right about the depth of Quins 'squad. Nick Evans helps Harlequins hand Exeter Chiefs a sobering defeat
From the past sorrows, we derive our self-respect to love our compatriots.
Across Russia there was fury that while the people feared the worst for 116 of their compatriots their leader was swanning around on holiday.
It sounded positive, but those evenings will be a lot more fun if Woods delivers, and inspires his compatriots, on the field of play.
Mr. Gotthard replied, 'that he had bought the mazurka as Chopin's autograph from a Polish countess, who, being in sad distress, parted, though with the greatest sorrow, with the composition of her illustrious compatriot.' Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
He was using the phrase to exhort his compatriots to prepare for war, to engage in the struggle for freedom. American Sketches
In later years, his northern students shared with their southern compatriots admiration for his soldierly valor, of which they were continually reminded, as one of them wrote, ‘by the choliambic [limping] rhythm in his majestic gait.’
Kenyan officials said the lure of potential wealth attracted younger compatriots and that is when the exploitation could start.
So far, however, they have not been able to rouse their compatriots from their apathy.
Thomson's compatriot, Thomas Gordon, described dedications as ‘Bills of exchange drawn by the witty upon the great, and payable at sight’.
The OSS was officially committed to working with Chiang Kai-shek, but it was not clear which enemy the Generalissimo was more committed to fighting—the Japanese invaders who had laid waste to his country for seven years or his Communist compatriots in the north. A Covert Affair

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