How to Use Minnesotan in a Sentence

Minnesotan

noun
  • That is just the cost of being alive as a Minnesotan.
    — Outside Online, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Killing a Minnesotan on camera is a very bad idea.
    — Jennifer Brooks, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Pretti was the second Minnesotan shot and killed in the upheaval this month.
    — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Will a Minnesotan take center stage in March Madness?
    — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The push for reform follows the killing of a second Minnesotan by federal agents.
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 29 Jan. 2026
  • As the musical makes abundantly clear, Prince was a Minnesotan.
    — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 17 Oct. 2025
  • One is a debut from a Minnesotan, the other from a Wisconsinite.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Brink is a native Minnesotan who starred at Minnetonka High School.
    — Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Gubash, a native Minnesotan, has lived and worked in the Egyptian capital since 1985.
    — Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Gubash, a native Minnesotan, has lived and worked in the Egyptian capital since 1985.
    — Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Gubash, a native Minnesotan, has lived and worked in the Egyptian capital since 1985.
    — Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Gubash, a native Minnesotan, has lived and worked in the Egyptian capital since 1985.
    — Charlene Gubash, NBC news, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Trump has never provided evidence for his claims against Minnesotan officials.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Nick is the first Minnesotan to commit to the two-time national champions, Boston College.
    — Marielle Mohs, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Sanneh is a Minnesotan who played in the MLS and on the USMNT.
    — Ashley Grams, CBS News, 11 June 2026
  • Shovel your neighbor’s walk In a state that prides itself on decency, there’s something particularly Minnesotan about the protests.
    — Tim Sullivan, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve.
    — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Grand Marais Though not as well known as its Minnesotan cousin of the same name, Grand Marais is another waterfront town on Lake Superior.
    — Katy Spratte Joyce, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2026
  • Earlier this month, after Minnesotan Renee Good was killed by an ICE agent, Target leaders did not make a public statement.
    — Hugh Son,melissa Repko, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Andrea Shapiro, a Minnesotan, spoke with WCCO from a hotel looking over the city of Puerto Vallarta on Sunday.
    — Ashley Grams, CBS News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Rodriguez’s biography with the University of Minnesota describes him as a fifth-generation Minnesotan and a first-generation college graduate.
    — Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Federal prosecutors are investigating allegations of fraud in Minnesotan social safety net programs and have charged some members of the Somali-American community in the state.
    — Sarah Davis, The Hill, 10 Jan. 2026
  • While Walz is not implicated in these cases, the reality that this has become an urgent problem under his watch and generated questions about his performance as governor, enveloping talk of the Minnesotan's future political ambitions.
    — Hunter Woodall, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Minnesotan Chiefs of Police Association President Jay Henthorne told lawmakers on Monday that digital evidence is often all that's available in modern criminal investigations.
    — CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Bruins’ draftee and fellow Minnesotan Cooper Simpson, who tore it up with the USHL Youngstown Phantoms (34-40-74 in 61 games), is also headed to Grand Forks.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 5 July 2026
  • Tensions between Washington and the leaders of progressive US cities have mounted since the deadly and chaotic federal immigration crackdown in Minneapolis resulted in the fatal shooting last weekend of Alex Pretti, the second Minnesotan to be killed by federal agents in the state this year.
    — Whitney Wild, CNN Money, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Minnesotans whose names were also inscribed at the memorial and who are being recognized this week are Anoka County Sheriff’s Detention Deputy Richard Legler, who was ambushed nearly 40 years ago, and Red Lake tribal police officer Jesse Branch.
    — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 13 May 2026
  • The Treasury Department is taking a closer look at financial transactions between Minnesotan residents and businesses and Somalia as the federal government ramps up its immigration crackdown in the state, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters on Friday during a visit to the state.
    — Fatima Hussein, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Democrats have escalated their negotiating tactics with congressional Republicans and White House officials, who've been in sensitive talks over reforming the 9/11-era Cabinet agency since federal agents killed a second Minnesotan, 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti, in January.
    — Zachary Schermele, Louisville Courier Journal, 13 Feb. 2026

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