Brother Jonathan
Example Sentences
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Brother Jonathan got caught in a windstorm and struck one of the rocks.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2025
National symbols aren’t something we can formally retire; they’re deep in the culture, and can only fade away, like Brother Jonathan or Columbia, as people’s values change.
From Slate • Jul. 4, 2022
Brother Jonathan may have morphed into Uncle Sam around the time of the Civil War, before fading away.
From Salon • Dec. 11, 2021
He replaced Brother Jonathan, a New Englander, as an American icon in the early 19th century after an article circulated in the May 12, 1830, New York Gazette.
From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2015
There must be no more boundary questions trumped up, no more attempts to chip pieces off our frontier; or, strong as the desire is to keep friends with Brother Jonathan, something serious will ensue.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
