Englishman

//ˈɪŋ.lɪʃ.mən//

"Englishman" in a Sentence (24 examples)

An Englishman is an alien in the United States.

As an Englishman, he is particularly sensitive to the differences between English and American usage.

Generally speaking, the Englishman is not curious about others.

How can you tell an Englishman from an American?

In the same way, a Russian might fail to see anything amusing in a joke which would make an Englishman laugh to tears.

When the Englishman heard this last question, he could not believe his ears.

An Englishman would act in a different way.

An Englishman would not use such a word.

An Englishman would not pronounce it like that.

There is a curious story about an Englishman.

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the Ynglishe men had great vyctorye, for there was taken and slayne a greate nombar, and there was slayne the lorde Morley and Englishe man.

To see twenty or thirty female Englishmen of full regulation-size dancing a ballet, is an overpowering luxury.

All Englishmen, male and female, young and old, are for the purposes of this establishment considered clean.

Rest assured it cannot rest idle until Englishmen, male, female, and children are mercilessly massacred to the best interests of the country.

In Bangkok at twelve o'clock they foam at the mouth and run, / But mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.

He has his dark -- well, darkish -- side under control. Which is to say that he is an Englishman, well practiced in masking pain and absurdity and descents into sheer goofiness with mannerly behavior, sly irony and stiff upper lips.

Not since Coventry in 1992 has a Premier League side kicked off a campaign with an all-English XI but things have reached the point where, of the 61 signings who have cost the elite division's 20 clubs a transfer fee this summer, only 12 have involved Englishmen. […] Pardew has high hopes that one young Englishman, Paul Dummett, a left-back from Gosforth, the same Newcastle suburb that produced Alan Shearer, will make at least 10 appearances for his side this season.

Yea, but that’s not really a surprise, is it? She famously wrote a book where a redhead plays second fiddle to a magical Englishman. “Come along, Ron, come along. I shall have all the powers, and your brothers can die fighting my war. Come along.”

Also, for their national flower, the Scots chose a thistle. That is a plant made of tiny knives and a throwing star. “The only flower I like is a flower that can pierce an Englishman’s throat!”.

... others, an aging Englishman who would do anything to further his fortune ...

Fucking above your head Englishman!

In Chꝛiſt there is nether frẽch ner engliſh: but the frenchman is the engliſhmans awne ſelfe / and the engliſh the frenchmans awne ſelfe.

Adꝛian the .iiii. an engliſhman boꝛne, conſtreigned the Conſulles and Senatours of Rome to depoſe theym ſelfes, and to committe all theyꝛ rule vnto the churche.

HAuing at this preſent publiſhed the Hiſtory off the Church of England, compiled by Venerable Bede, a lerned light of our countre aboue 800. yeares paſt, wherein the Faith firſt planted amonge vs engliſhmen, and ſo many hundred yeares continued, is expreſſed, I neuer doubted but the peruſall thereof ſhoulde be to the Catholike and true ſtedfaſt beleuers, bothe comfortable to reade, and neceſſary to vnderſtande.

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