Sample sentences for SCANDINAVIA

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Definition

Norway, Sweden, Denmark and sometimes Finland & Iceland

They look like a stereotypically blonde, blue-eyed Scandinavian family.

Scandinavian = people of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and sometimes Finland & Iceland

The Dutch belong to the West-Germanic language branch as contrasted to Scandinavians who belong to the North-Germanic (or Nordic) branch.

Scandinavians = people of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and sometimes Finland & Iceland

The children's show Lazytown premiered in Iceland, grew in popularity throughout Scandinavia, and then spread to over 100 countries.

Scandinavia = Norway, Sweden, Denmark and sometimes Finland & Iceland

The far north of Scandinavia was The Icy Waste.
Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City
The voice spoke German with a strong Scandinavian accent.
Corrie ten Boom -- The Hiding Place
I studied the hundreds of Scandinavian teenagers seated in the hall while I was being introduced.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
Berserker was a redoubtable hero in Scandinavian mythology, the grandson of the eight-handed Starkodder and the beautiful Alfhilde.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
The Bohemian and Scandinavian girls could not get positions as teachers, because they had had no opportunity to learn the language.
Willa Cather -- My Antonia
That had produced a Scandinavian shout: "Ja, cobber!
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
All this blond wood is from Scandinavia.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
Very few words came from the Scandinavian immigrants—gravlax, smorgasbord—but their speech heavily influenced the accents in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
My attention was caught at once by the girl's extraordinary Scandinavian fairness.
Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
Scandinavian passport perhaps.
John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
In Scandinavian Christmas celebrations, for example, Christian and Old Norse customs are wedded even to this day.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
One of the more Scandinavian songs was called "The Boon of Life": Ky-yow replied: The boon of life is health.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
There I thought you were Danish, or maybe Finnish, eastern Scandinavian.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
I've sent tens of thousands of English and Scandinavian tourists to the Levant.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
Wheatsylvania was a "good location," he said: solid Scandinavian and Dutch and German and Bohemian farmers who paid their bills.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
Rachel/Rachelle clogs up to the board, dressed in an outrageous Dutch/Scandinavian ensemble.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Speak
It looked like a Scandinavian airport.
Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King

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