How to Use country in a Sentence

country

1 of 2 noun
  • He moved to the north country to fish and hunt.
  • The whole country was stunned by the news.
  • They prefer the country to the city.
  • The two countries have a lot in common.
  • We went camping in the hill country.
  • She lives out in the country.
  • They drove through miles of open country.
  • They are living in different parts of the country.
  • The President has the support of most of the country.
  • They drove across the country from California to New York.
  • And that’s a great thing for country.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
  • That’s why our country is here.
    — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2026
  • No country artists made the cut.
    — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Show me a country that doesn’t have faults.
    — Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
  • Show me a country that doesn’t have a bloody past.
    — Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
  • His mind races back to a time in his country of birth.
    — Sara Sidner, CNN Money, 21 Mar. 2026
  • And that was the case across the board — in all countries.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 1 May 2026
  • Dark skin this, mukhang-achay that—what a country of self-loathers!
    — Han Ong, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Which countries have the most Olympic medals?
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Which countries have the most Olympic gold medals?
    — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2026
  • And that’s part of being in a country.
    — Trevor Bach, Dallas Morning News, 31 Jan. 2026
  • He had been outkicked many times in cross country.
    — Scott M. Reid, Oc Register, 30 May 2026
  • And for years, almost all of it has been made in one country.
    — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Switzerland is a country that feels like it’s frozen in time.
    — Jd Linville, Variety, 15 May 2026
  • Who said gingham has to lean country?
    — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 26 Sep. 2025
  • This country had better wake up fast.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2026
  • To be clear, in this country, this is still the stuff of B-list thrillers.
    — Sue Halpern, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The courts of this country was design to be used by the people.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Feb. 2026
  • To know when a country came into being, where does one look?
    — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
  • There are many ways for a country to become unfree.
    — Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 9 May 2026

country

2 of 2 adjective
  • But for the longer cross-country trip, flying is far cheaper.
    — cleveland, 22 May 2022
  • My heart pounded as cross-country skiers collapsed to the ground at the finish line.
    — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Unlike figure skaters, cross-country skiers don’t try to hide the pain involved.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The park sits smack-dab in the center of the city and hosts a number of high school and college cross-country races.
    — Molly Hanson, Outside Online, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Newbury Park flexed its slow-twitch muscle fibers in the fall cross-country season.
    — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Petito, 22, had been on a cross-country trip with her fiancé.
    — Sophie Reardon, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Don't worry too much about why cross-country skiers are asked to stop and shoot targets midrace, just enjoy the drama.
    — Mark Osborne, ABC News, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Does anybody think the Sioux moved to the Dakotas for the cross-country skiing?
    — WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • The snow affected the men's cross-country relay ski race so much that workers used leaf blowers to clear it out of the tracks.
    — Bernie Wilson, ajc, 13 Feb. 2022
  • The fight happened weeks before authorities say the boyfriend killed her while the couple was on a cross-country van trip.
    — Brady McCombs and Sam Metz, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The fight happened weeks before authorities say the boyfriend killed her while the couple were on a cross-country van trip.
    — Fox News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Laundrie and Petito set off on a cross-country road trip last July.
    — Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Petito and Laundrie set off on a cross-country vanning trip last June.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 22 Jan. 2022
  • At the time, Alana was also a distance runner and won a national age-group cross-country race at the age of nine.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The set off on a cross-country road trip in late spring, documenting their travels in idyllic social media posts.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 23 Nov. 2021
  • In cross-country skiing, athletes use skis and poles to propel through a mostly flat course of various distances.
    — Johanna Gretschel, SELF, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Dax McDonald was on a cross-country rail trip with his family when the train derailed.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 27 June 2022
  • Beth Sobiloff had always wanted to embark on a cross-country road trip in an RV.
    — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022
  • Hike, backpack or mountain bike throughout the area during the non-snowy months or enjoy cross-country skiing on trails in the winter.
    — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The storm began its cross-country journey by dumping heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada.
    — CBS News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Over the weekend, cross-country skiers and snowshoers flocked to Northeast Ohio parks to take advantage.
    — Alexis Oatman, cleveland, 14 Feb. 2022
  • The climb understandably takes up the bulk of the race and includes sections of cross-country skiing and hiking when the snow gets deeper and rougher.
    — New York Times, 19 Feb. 2022
  • Diggins wins the first-ever sprint medal in cross-country skiing for @TeamUSA.
    — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The 39-year-old singer, who is in the middle of a cross-country tour, shared her latest look on Instagram, and fans are loving it.
    — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 21 June 2022
  • The 49th state is sending curlers, cross-country skiers, a figure skater and a hockey player in search of new hardware in Beijing.
    — Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Many fans are making the cross-country trek from the chilly metropolis of Cincinnati, where snow is still on the ground from multiple winter storms.
    — Caitlin Kaiser and Pedram Javaheri, CNN, 12 Feb. 2022
  • The Raiders, who got drilled 48-9 by the Chiefs, have lost two straight and have to make the cross-country trek on a short week after that beatdown.
    — cleveland, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The film explores how the pair would like a bit more space but the son gets the opposite when sitting next to his mom on a cross-country road trip to Las Vegas.
    — oregonlive, 7 May 2022
  • Wilson made his own cross-country drive years later, to graduate school at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2022
  • At the time of his death, Saget was in the middle of his cross-country comedy tour, with at least a dozen more live shows scheduled for 2022.
    — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 10 Jan. 2022

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