country

Example Sentences

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Domestic tourism and entertainment spending have increased as movie theaters and amusement parks, once banned, have sprouted across the country.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

The country has undergone tremendous change in the past decade, as reforms have helped create a burgeoning private sector, loosened ultraconservative social strictures and tackled rampant corruption.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

But once a country has detected ASF, export markets immediately close.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

Around the altar, placards bearing the names of Christian villages in south Lebanon -- cut off from the rest of the country or under fire -- had been placed.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

Hominy Ridge was nothing but an out-of-date, unimproved, one-room country schoolhouse in the backwoodsiest corner of Indiana.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck