Brother Jonathan
Example Sentences
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National symbols aren’t something we can formally retire; they’re deep in the culture, and can only fade away, like Brother Jonathan or Columbia, as people’s values change.
From Slate • Jul. 4, 2022
But there was another figure resembling Uncle Sam called Brother Jonathan who emerged earlier.
From Salon • Dec. 11, 2021
Brother Jonathan and Drew Scott from “Property Brothers” are back with new episodes of their spinoff series.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2016
He replaced Brother Jonathan, a New Englander, as an American icon in the early 19th century after an article circulated in the May 12, 1830, New York Gazette.
From New York Times • Jul. 3, 2015
Brother Jonathan has fairly thrown down the gauntlet to the Britishers, and it behoves the latter to take it up in a becoming spirit.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 by Chambers, William
