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 average oil-burning landsman, shivering over November heating bills, may well ask: What's so wrong with that?

From Time Magazine Archive

The passing floes can make a landsman as giddy as a child finding shapes hi clouds.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was supposed to be the home of a landsman, a good man who would help us find work.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros