Example sentences of "we americans " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We Americans are spoilt , ’ he said , ‘ I doubt whether we would have played in the cold and soaking conditions we had here today . ’ |
| 2 | In 1954 Fairfield Osborn warned his countrymen : ‘ We Americans have used more of the world 's resources in the past forty years than all the people in the world had used in the four thousand years up to 1914 . |
| 3 | We Americans are proud of our history and culture and would like you to learn more about it in the museums , theatres , galleries and concert halls that span our country . |
| 4 | Worldly-wise and diverting in its tendency to offer a recipe for faijoada completa and the protocol for French deer hunting within a few paragraphs , the novel poses the same difficulty that plagues the protagonist : as we Americans put it , we miss the forest for the trees . ’ |
| 5 | I do n't think we Americans are particularly known for our sense of humility . |