How to Use British in a Sentence

British

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  • The British Fashion Council also stepped in to help designers after Matches collapsed.
    — Samantha Conti, WWD, 30 Sep. 2024
  • But the farther north the British went from the King’s Bridge the shakier their hold was.
    — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • What has turned the tide in the right direction for you since the British Grand Prix?
    — Michael Loré, Robb Report, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Photographs of protests line the walls, and the blue flag of British Hong Kong flies over the cash register.
    — Megan Specia, New York Times, 27 May 2024
  • This marks a new era for British Vogue’s first Black editor-in-chief.
    — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The British were rather dominant in this competition, with five of the 10 Olympic medals awarded in the sport going to the UK.
    — Jack Hillcox, CNN, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The findings were published in the British Medical Journal on March 27.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024
  • During the first week of September 1958, keen observers spotted hundreds of rare birds in the British Isles.
    — Maddie Bender, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Kylie Jenner is on the cover of the September issue of British Vogue, and the reactions to her photos have been…not great, to say the least.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 15 Aug. 2024
  • He was appointed Order of the British Empire for his services to drama in 2023.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Penélope told Contact Music in 2008, per British Vogue.
    — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The British Academy has unveiled various changes and tweaks to its rules for the upcoming 2024 film awards.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 July 2023
  • The nation – which was colonized by the British in 1788 – has long debated whether a long-distance monarch is still needed.
    — Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 14 July 2024
  • When speaking to British Vogue for this week's cover story, the actress and singer, 32, opened up about how her fiancé, 38, is handling life as a girl dad.
    — Emma Aerin Becker, Peoplemag, 2 July 2024
  • Aero reports that JetBlue wants to start a code-sharing agreement with British Airways.
    — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 23 May 2024
  • The growth of weeds on land across southern Ukraine is probably hindering the progress of fighting, the British Defense Ministry said.
    — Eve Sampson, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
  • According to British Vogue, Elvis went to great lengths to keep his famous hairstyle from falling flat, even wearing a support wire to keep it in place.
    — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Shakira went full glam for the outing—at the British Grand Prix—opting for bronzy makeup and a voluminous curly hairdo.
    — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 July 2023
  • The British Museum was informed of the discovery, according to the estate.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2024
  • At the tail end of 2023, British Vogue’s shopping editor dampened her forefinger and raised it forthright into the air.
    — Daniel Rodgers, Glamour, 10 Apr. 2024
  • There, British Airways was the dominant carrier with 50 percent of all flights.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 12 Sep. 2024
  • On a recent morning, India Gate, a war memorial built by the British, was invisible amid the plumes of toxic haze.
    — Sameer Yasir, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The study observed 11 northern and southern resident killer whales off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 May 2024
  • But by the end of the nineteenth century, economic failures and a defeat at the hands of the British in the Opium Wars had brought China to a point of existential crisis.
    — Rana Mitter, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • But the Fourth did not signify the final victory of the American Revolution against the British.
    — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 3 July 2024
  • Under the British Raj, forests were cleared to develop settlements and set up plantations, resulting in the loss of habitat for big cats like the cheetah.
    — Dhruv Tikekar, CNN, 12 July 2023
  • Still, Munro tries to communicate to them that their mutual destruction is precisely what the British want.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Orcas in several places, including off the coasts of British Columbia and Patagonia, launch themselves up onto the beach to hunt.
    — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • The currents create a cylindrical motion of the water above the seamount, where the iceberg now floats, rotating about 15 degrees a day, according to the British Antarctic Survey.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 15 Aug. 2024
  • However, eruptions have likely happened in British Columbia in the last few thousand years.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2024

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