How to Use compatriot in a Sentence

compatriot

noun
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  • We watched our compatriots compete in the Olympics.
  • The 28-year-old comes to the U.S. on the H-2A visa for many of the same reasons as his compatriots on the farm: money.
    — Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Rana said that his compatriot who lived in Libya was the owner of the trawler.
    — Demetris Nellas, ajc, 18 June 2023
  • Fans of Friends or Game of Thrones don't have to look far to find compatriots.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The peep-toe pump wants to show you a little more skin than its compatriots.
    — Emilia Petrarca, The Cut, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The Kenyan had run much of the race alongside Ruth Chepngetich, but dropped her compatriot at the 20-mile mark.
    — George Ramsay, CNN, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Galal aims to go back to Khartoum soon and make art that will get his compatriots to think about the future.
    — Abdi Latif Dahir, Quartz Africa, 12 July 2019
  • The force of Cooper’s will is well known to her colleagues and compatriots.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2023
  • A lot of your friends, family and compatriots from the film have died.
    — Erin Osmon, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Soon he and his wealthy compatriots will be able to suck down all our milkshakes.
    — Drew Magary, GQ, 3 Mar. 2018
  • Bahr said Jane Doe 2 and two male compatriots may have been planning to rob a ``john'' that night at the motel.
    — City News Service, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 May 2018
  • Nearly half of my compatriots do not even have enough to eat.
    — Monique Clesca, Washington Post, 18 June 2024
  • His compatriot Thom Yorke, of the beloved band Radiohead, plays a show of his solo work on the same stage (March 30).
    — Briana Younger, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2020
  • At the end of the episode, Picard and his compatriots activate this new android and get to speak to Data again for the first time in decades.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Like many of his compatriots, Cummins was lured to MLC.
    — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Your sweet-toothed compatriot clearly believes the best part of any cake is the frosting.
    — chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2021
  • What’s clear is that for everyone on screen, the question of their own blood, and not just that of their compatriots, is a mystery.
    — Soraya Roberts, Longreads, 16 Apr. 2020
  • One of our compatriots arrives at noon to LAX to attend the Oscars.
    — Chris Morris, Orange County Register, 31 Mar. 2017
  • His duo with compatriot Bruno Raberg (bass) rejuvenates the old melodies with a jolt of jazz.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2018
  • Khan strives to appeal to his compatriots and families with his body of work.
    — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Thor’s recent compatriot and former flat-mate, as seen in Avengers: Endgame (2019), will receive a new suit of body armor in the film.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2020
  • The Canadian singer wowed the judges with a cover of her compatriot's self-love anthem.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2020
  • For a guy who lives to obliterate the cochlea, Thurston has also never been the madman many of his punk compatriots were.
    — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 23 Jan. 2024
  • There is never any doubt that Daryl and his compatriots are in France, and no chance this story could take place anywhere else.
    — Jessica Liese, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Paul and Artie were good kids from Queens that didn’t fit in that typical wild rock-star lifestyle like some of their compatriots.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Miyako would not have to travel far to visit her male compatriot.
    — Alex Horton, ajc, 22 Apr. 2018
  • But for all that to unfold, Fries and his compatriots would first need to build up a commercial market for tear gas.
    — Longreads, 24 Nov. 2014
  • The memory of Hitler, and of the recent war, haunted Adenauer and his compatriots too.
    — Anne Applebaum, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
  • His compatriot, however, was able to send a foot-to-the-floor performance, securing a P5 finish.
    — Kanzah Maktoum, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • When the premiere was announced a month ago, some DPs took to social media to argue that the decision to show the film was a promotional move made in poor taste, given that its creation caused the death of one of their compatriots.
    — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2024

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