Dutchman
"Dutchman" in a Sentence (12 examples)
An Englishman, a Belgian and a Dutchman enter a pub and sit down at the counter. Says the barkeeper, "Wait a minute, is this a joke or what?"
What does a Dutchman do after winning the World Cup? He turns the playstation off.
Tom is, on account of his accent, often taken for a Dutchman; he is in fact an Englishman.
He is a Dutchman.
The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship.
Anish Giri (2776) won yesterday (24.04.2021) to the American Fabiano Caruana (2820) in an extraordinary match for the Candidate's Tournament, which will appoint the next challenger of the current world champion, Magnus Carlsen. The Dutchman led the black pieces masterfully in a Sicilian Defense.
The new coach is a soft-spoken, 40-year-old Dutchman whose youthful looks, dreadlocks and lean physique make it sometimes difficult to distinguish him from the players.
Another sunny day, this 1st of August of 2025, here on Lulu Island. At Tim Hortons café, whilst I was drinking oat-milk iced coffee, I was talking with Hans the Dutchman, sitting in his motorized wheelchair. He was enjoying a Boston cream donut and a peach sparkling quencher. We talked about my great-great-grandfather Dimitri, from Kimi on Evia Island, Greece. My Filipino family has an ancient sepia picture of him sitting as if he were Count Dracula. Hans told me that he has a woman cousin from Netherlands, who escaped the cold climate to live indefinitely in sunnier Greece. She's been overstaying there for 20-plus years! At home, my Greek-Cypriot neighbour George came by to give my family a big bag of cute green figs. He's married to a Japanese, Chika, and they have two hybrid daughters, Chloe and Anna. I toured the Greek mainland and islands in 2002, but never reached Kimi. I've read the travelogue, The Olive Grove: Travels in Greece, by Katherine Kizilos, a Greek-Australian, and it seems that Greece is also nice in the off-season.
About ten months ago a report reached my ears that a Dutchman had constructed a telescope, by the aid of which visible objects, although at a great distance from the eye of the observer, were seen distinctly as if near; […]
[…]There have been at least four legendary Lost Dutchman's gold mines in the American West, including the famed Superstition mine of Jacob Waltz.
[…]the tyranny of the rockspiders, crunchies, hairybacks, ropes, and bloody Dutchmen. Those were the names by which we referred to Afrikaners.
President Roosevelt called a press conference in the Oval Office. [...] when asked where the Billys had originated, the Dutchman smiled broadly [...].
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