landsman
Example Sentences
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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 • Mar. 8, 2017
He had the tolerance of a landsman, the faith that comes with witnessing the changing seasons year in and year out.
From Time • Jul. 25, 2012
The passing floes can make a landsman as giddy as a child finding shapes hi clouds.
From Time Magazine Archive
The average oil-burning landsman, shivering over November heating bills, may well ask: What's so wrong with that?
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Whitby had likely assumed that I was a landsman to him, provided Frankie hadn’t told him that outright.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
