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How To Use landsman In A Sentence

• Lasky and Zukor were Jews, landsmen, and Cecil was only half a landsman, and not even that much emotionally. Empire of Dreams
• When I'm in the States and I hear someone speaking French with a Quebecois accent I want to yell out "landsman" even though my French is pretty terrible. Progressive Bloggers
• He was no seaman, yet those vessels looked too flimsy to his landsman's eye.
• Early in the novel, we're given some backstory: how deepsmen and Venetians clashed centuries earlier, how the deepsmen got the better of the landsmen, forcing them to accept a mermaid Queen, and after subsequent generations of inter-breeding, deepsman/landsman hybrids ruling every country. Kit Whitfield, In Great Waters (2009)
• Meyer Landsman is the most decorated shammes in the District of Sitka, the man who solved the murder of the beautiful Froma Lefkowitz by her furrier husband, and caught Podolsky the Hospital Killer. Excerpt: The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
• In a moment the decks were in commotion, Johansen bellowing orders and the men pulling or letting go ropes of various sorts — all naturally confusing to a landsman such as myself. Chapter 3
• There's a Yiddish word, "landsman" londs-man which, roughly translated, means "a fellow villager" - a stranger, perhaps, but still someone you welcome because you know they share a common connection in the village of your ancestors. WATCH: Hick Keeps Focus On Jobs As He's Sworn In
• And I thought I was safe in the hands of a landsman like you. CHAPTER XLV
• The spirit of the kehillah survived into the twentieth century in the form of landsmanshaft, separate societies existing within congregations in cities such as New York.
• Kydd is the only major fictional nautical hero not born to the sea-faring life; in the real world, a pressed landsman who rose to captain in the Nelsonian era would be a remarkable creature indeed, and this should be the key to his character. At Journey's End, a Ship of the Line