How to Use Southerner in a Sentence

Southerner

noun
Definition of Southernernext
  • As any Southerner knows, there's no telling what the weather will deal out that day!
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The first of their bunch, not a few of them Southerners smarting from the Civil War, took on the task of erasing what the earth had been.
    — Mark Arax, New York Times, 1 June 2023
  • And there are more than two or three million Southerners there.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 8 May 2023
  • The Southerner has only lived in Laguna Beach for the last few months.
    — Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 28 Aug. 2023
  • While the campaign ended, the ideas that had sucked white Southerners into paying for the rides up North did not.
    — TIME, 21 Mar. 2024
  • As these 20 stand-outs show, Southerners go above and beyond to take care of one another.
    — Carolanne Griffith Roberts, Southern Living, 22 May 2024
  • The father of three may not be a Southerner himself but his connections to the region run deep.
    — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The art of setting a table is one Southerners know well and practice often.
    — Maggie Burch, Southern Living, 24 Jan. 2024
  • But, ever the gracious Southerner, the joke was at his own expense, not his rival's.
    — Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Servings: 12 to 16 Grape salad might not be the first side dish that comes to mind, but most Southerners have seen this fruit salad at a picnic or potluck at least once in their lives.
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Reese, a Southerner from Kentucky with friends attending the game, walked over to Robinson and put his arm around him while talking to him, a gesture that silenced much of the crowd.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The last time a Democrat won there in the general election was 1976, and the candidate was a fellow Southerner, Jimmy Carter.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Tennessee and North Carolina are a few of the first places that come to mind for Southerners seeking a mountain escape.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Every true Southerner knows that any chili bearing the name of Texas must live up to the hype—and its namesake, which means excluding beans from the ingredient list.
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 13 Sep. 2023
  • By the Cambridge calculus, Southerners are worse than Nazis?
    — Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Black was a Southerner deeply sensitive to his own honor (not to mention a tennis player).
    — Noah Feldman Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The big picture: Southerners are hurting the most, according to the Census Bureau's survey.
    — Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 4 Sep. 2024
  • While some might see children at weddings as an etiquette debacle, Southerners don’t see it that way.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 1 Aug. 2024
  • My fear is that these opinions will forever be ingrained in Southerners unable to accept the losing side.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The books have followed the same narrator—a writer and a Southerner by birth, who has spent time teaching poetry in Bulgaria.
    — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Are the tastes of Southerners much different than Northerners?
    — Louis Biscotti, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • McRae seemed to be a big, aggressive, silver-haired Southerner, above six feet in height, with enormous shoulders, hands about the size of my head, and a broad smile that revealed a hollow space of molars gone from lack of care.
    — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
  • But the measure was blocked a year later by a filibuster in the Senate led by segregationist Southerners.
    — Marianne Levine, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
  • To get through the simmering season (and often the months surrounding it too), so many Southerners rely on air conditioning for respite from the weather.
    — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Can Southerners really be satisfied with just ½ cup of this iconic dish?
    — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 23 July 2023
  • In an age-old tradition, some Southerners drop peanuts right into their glass bottles of Coca-Cola for a refreshing, salty treat.
    — Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2023
  • We Southerners appreciate Pub Subs for their customizability, freshness, and tendency to save the day when hunger is high, and the clock is ticking.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 29 Aug. 2023
  • As a white male Southerner of a certain age, Confederate statues had been lifelong fixtures.
    — Robert Draper, National Geographic, 2 July 2020
  • As Southerners waged a never-ending botanical battle, a second crisis brewed in the United States.
    — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2023
  • From crumbles to pies to garnishes for our iced tea, Southerners love to use berries in a variety of ways and with different berries in season all year long, there’s no shortage of the deliciously tart, tangy, sweet fruits.
    — Amber Love Bond, Southern Living, 5 July 2024

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