landsman

Example Sentences

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“He was with a landsman—er, friend, I think? I’m sorry. I don’t know.”

From Literature

“In our area, people want to get back to work, they’re willing to take a business risk on whether or not they catch this” virus, said GOP Rep. James Stricker, an oil landsman from Farmington.

From Washington Times

I think he is trying to communicate with his landsmen using expressions that are unique to a very small population.

From Washington Post

Farmer, goatherd, cattleherd, hunter or artisan, the landsman looks at the ocean as at a salt unsteady realm that has nothing to do with him at all.

From Literature

She married a landsman, who became a diamond merchant; in the early nineteen-fifties, the couple resettled in the Bronx, and some fifteen years later, as empty-nesters, they went back to Israel.

From The New Yorker