How to Use national in a Sentence

national

1 of 2 adjective
  • The game was shown on national television.
  • She won the national championship last year.
  • Doing well in the Olympics is a matter of national pride.
  • His test scores were higher than the national average.
  • Baseball is called America's national pastime.
  • Late-night talk shows have been part of the national routine for decades.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Will the Jaguars be able to perform under the national spotlight?
    Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Howes is a current member of the U.S. men’s national handball team.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The Tigers finished 3rd in the AP poll, but some other rankings crowned the Tigers national champions.
    Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Not so in Georgia, which has for years been held up as a national success story.
    Matt Stevens, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
  • But someone ratted her out, and the head of the Cheka (the national secret police force), Solomon Mogilevsky, gave her a choice: Go to jail or spy for us.
    Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The Mavericks join Central Missouri State in 1984 as the only two schools to win both the men’s and women’s national titles in the same year.
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Either way, Mathews appears to be more than ready to chase after his goal of the national high school record in the 800 meters in the outdoor season.
    Logan Stanley, The Arizona Republic, 18 Jan. 2024
  • But the shift reflects a change in national mood, especially among the white voters who make up the vast majority of the GOP.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • In time, the ability of national financial systems to work through debt will be a marker of the rise and fall of nations in the 21st century.
    Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The union wants the automakers to cover workers at the battery factories in their national contracts with the UAW.
    J. Edward Moreno, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The iconic folk singer was killed in Chile’s national stadium shortly after the coup.
    Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Since 2021, demand for the drug has created a months-long national shortage — one that’s still going.
    Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Nearly half the population lives under the national poverty line of 76 cents a day.
    Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Friday marked the first time the United States played the national team currently known as Montenegro at the senior men’s level.
    Tim Reynolds, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The pride is in the punishment, and the achievement, and in being part of a sport that, among Colombians of all ages, has become an unexpected national pastime.
    James Wagner, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • There was a late lead against the defending national champions.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
  • And within a decade, a national movement to restrict it gained momentum.
    Melissa Chan, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • One troubling sign for future retail spending is national credit card debt, which crossed $1 trillion for the first time this year.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2023
  • That month, there was not a single day when the call center hit the national standard of answering 90 percent of calls within 15 seconds, the data shows.
    Emily Davies, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
  • This means roughly 13% of workers in the state are employed in the manufacturing sector, besting the national count by more than 4%.
    Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Whichever two teams emerge from each bracket will play a best-of-three series in the finals to determine a national champion.
    Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 29 May 2023
  • That's because New York's cost of living is the highest of the cities SmartAsset analyzed, at 137% above the national average.
    Elizabeth Napolitano, CBS News, 9 June 2023
  • The Trojans may also be without any incoming freshmen as all three of the program’s high school signees asked out of the national letters of intent and opened up their recruitment after the coaching change.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Due to larger conforming loan sizes than the rest of the country, California mortgage rates tend to be cheaper than Freddie’s national survey numbers.
    Jeff Lazerson, Orange County Register, 11 Apr. 2024
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national

2 of 2 noun
  • She's a Mexican national now working in the United States.
  • King is the first U.S. national known to be detained in North Korea in nearly five years.
    Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The release of the Thai nationals was part of a separate deal with Hamas brokered by Turkey.
    NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023
  • The Nepali government has asked Russia to send back hundreds of Nepali nationals recruited to fight for them in the war.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Fey, who will be a senior next year, won the discus by throwing 168 feet, 7 inches at nationals.
    Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 11 July 2023
  • But researchers and Western diplomats say the killings of the miners did not fit the profile of how rebel groups have targeted Chinese nationals in the past.
    Elian Peltier, New York Times, 15 May 2023
  • The latest round of hostages included a group of 10 Israeli women and children, and four Thai nationals.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Most of the foreign nationals are Russian, Ukrainian and Egyptian.
    NBC News, 11 Nov. 2023
  • North Carolina’s goal came in the 77th minute on a penalty kick from Kerolin Necoli, a Brazilian national who was dangerous in attack most of the evening.
    Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The man, a Chinese national, made a brief court appearance Tuesday.
    Nick Perry, USA TODAY, 20 June 2023
  • And for the first time, all prefectures across the country saw a decrease in the number of Japanese nationals, a ministry spokesperson told CNN.
    Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 27 July 2023
  • Prince Phillip came from limited financial standing and was born in Greece, though still a British national.
    Jacob Linden, Redbook, 5 May 2023
  • The challenge right now, Margaret, is that the Egyptians are prepared to let Americans and other foreign nationals out of Gaza.
    CBS News, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Outside of Israelis and Palestinians, Thai nationals have suffered the heaviest toll in the war.
    Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2023
  • In the same indictment, three Russian nationals were also charged.
    Will Carless, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2023
  • At least 17 Israelis and one foreign national have been killed by Palestinians.
    Niha Masih, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
  • The governments of these countries have worked with Cambodia to rescue their nationals, but the efforts have mostly been on a case-by-case basis.
    Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The rest were Westerners, including a dual national of the United States and Canada.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
  • An arrest warrant was issued for the suspect, who is a Mexican national, and a judge assigned a $5 million bond.
    Joe Kottke, NBC News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The husband, a 53-year-old foreign national, had begun the process of applying for a green card and needed to pass an interview scheduled for a few days later.
    Defne Karabatur, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Caeleb Dressel, the seven-time Olympic champion, swam in the nationals after taking a break for mental health reasons.
    Scott Miller, New York Times, 9 July 2023
  • Comer has argued that these two wires are a small part of a broader pattern of payments made by foreign nationals to Hunter Biden and his business associates over the course of a decade.
    Jacqueline Alemany, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • But even as foreign nationals fled the fighting, millions of Sudanese residents remained trapped with no way out.
    Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 30 Apr. 2023
  • One of the suspects, a 40-year-old male Cypriot national, allegedly jumped out of the second-floor balcony of his residence when police ordered him to open his door.
    Amarachi Orie, CNN, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Visas are not required for U.S. citizens and U.S. nationals.
    Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The United States has charged two Russian nationals with deploying Lockbit ransomware against companies and groups around the world.
    James Pearson and Karen Freifeld, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2024
  • So far this year, the Guatemalan authorities have helped repatriate 58 dead nationals.
    Daniele Volpe Daniele Volpe, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Some of the reserve pool consists of candidates from bigger member states that might want to fund additional space trips for their nationals.
    Tereza Pultarova, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Dual nationals make up a sizable share of society in Israel.
    Josh Lederman, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Authorities announced the arrest of a man in Nairobi for the death of Mwangi and two Nigerian nationals were arrested in Waeni's death.
    Emma Ogao, ABC News, 27 Jan. 2024

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