Sample Sentences for
Dutch
(editor-reviewed)

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    It's not the fault of the Dutch that we Jews are having such a bad time.  (source)
    Dutch = the people of the Netherlands
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    "He seemed extremely intelligent," Franz states in an exotic brogue that sounds like a blend of Scottish, Pennsylvania Dutch, and Carolina drawl.  (source)
    Dutch = the language of the people of the Netherlands
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    He spoke English with a Dutch accent, which Lotte found charming.  (source)
    Dutch = of the Netherlands
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    Another transport crashed on takeoff, in part because several Dutch POWs had overloaded the plane by packing aboard a large cache of GI shoes that they intended to sell back home.  (source)
    Dutch = people of the Netherlands
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    Around its mouth was a motto written in Dutch, which Millard, standing next to me, translated: "From the mouths of our elders comes a fountain of wisdom."†  (source)
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    I couldn't very well ask him about it, so I just sat there surrounded by Dutchness, feeling awkward and hopeful.  (source)
    Dutchness = the quality of being Dutch or from the Netherlands
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    For the French it is Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People; for the Dutch, Rembrandt's Night Watch; for the Americans, Washington Crossing the Delaware; and for we Russians?  (source)
    Dutch = the people of the Netherlands
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    Above the picture was a caption: IN DUTCH WITH PA.†  (source)
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    The davenport makes von Rumpel think of an eighteenth-century Dutch tobacco box made out of brass and copper and encrusted with tiny diamonds that he examined earlier this week, and the tobacco box sends his thoughts, as inexorably as gravity, back to the Sea of Flames.  (source)
    Dutch = of the Netherlands
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    But w'en dere in dutch— Say, I seen 'em boined, Mister!†  (source)
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    In 1952, my grandfather, son of a Presbyterian minister and now a Presbyterian minister himself, became the first black minister in the history of the Dutch Reformed Church.  (source)
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    The shunnee, so to speak, has gotten himself in dutch with the church, so he's excommunicated.†  (source)
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    ...the pleasant May air, which was sweetened and colored by the flowering crabapples and beds of tulips and Dutch iris that flanked the entrance, a display we hadn't even noticed upon going in.  (source)
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    She put her head into the nursing station, in through the open half of the Dutch door.†  (source)
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    He took the essentials—a big black cast-iron skillet and the Dutch oven, some army-surplus tin plates, a few knives, his pistol, and Mom's archery set—and packed them in the trunk of the Blue Goose.†  (source)
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    He slipped out of the pen and walked to the Dutch doors and stood with one hand on the latch listening to water sheeting off the eaves.†  (source)
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    He went over and put his hand on top of the Dutch oven.†  (source)
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    In some of the stables, the top of the Dutch door at each stall was open.†  (source)
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    With a little imagination, subtracting out the changes the Sawtelles had made—the expanded kitchen, the extra bedroom, the back porch that ran the length of the west side—you'd notice that the house had the same steep gambrel roof that shed the snow so well in the winter, and that the windows were cut into the house just where the Dutch doors appeared at the end of the barn.†  (source)
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    Where the cooking fire had been was a barbecue pit and by it a Dutch oven.†  (source)
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    On their first night there her brother had plucked the stiff horse hairs out of the freshly whitewashed walls and run his fingers along the toothmarks on top of the double Dutch door where the wood was soft and worn.†  (source)
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    By the time they'd returned to the barn, Tinder was heeling without flaw, and when Edgar stopped before the Dutch doors, the dog dropped into a perfect sit at his knee.†  (source)
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    Smallest, she thought dismally, looking at it There were twelve burners, two regular ovens and a Dutch oven, a heated well on top in which you could simmer sauces or bake beans, a broiler, and a warmer — plus a million dials and temperature gauges.†  (source)
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    No leaning over the Dutch door to chat on maximum security.†  (source)
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    He looked again toward the Dutch doors and then faced into the workshop and then got control of himself and took a breath and looked steadily at Edgar.†  (source)
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    What with the feather bed, her flannel nightgown, the thick down cover, and his woolen clothing and alpaca socks, it was like a Dutch oven.†  (source)
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