Looking for sentences and phrases with the word sassenach? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Indeed, at one point, with only six men, they drove the eight-strong Sassenach pack back with a splendidly concerted shove.
The media community is reluctant to admit that Sassenach papers could overtake the homegrown product.
But the Sassenach tried to starve the nation at home while the land was full of crops that the British hyenas bought and sold in Rio de Janeiro.
The mildly derogatory Scottish Gaelic term Sassenach derives from this source.
Examples from Classical Literature
When I say I'm from the lowlands of West Yorkshire not the Highlands, they have a laugh and call me a sassenach.
To a Gaelic gentleman like him the Sassenach name he used for a convenience was gall and wormwood.
I played the gomeral brawly, but in the darkness we blundered ram-stam through the Sassenach lines.
Know you not that McDonnell is an exile, and that the hated Sassenach holds his castle?
The old soldier turns himself towards the voice of the Sassenach, and, with the bold courtesy of the camp, bids him enter the hut.
Wallace suffered many things during his life, but it was not a Sassenach who did this.
Indeed it was the sight of White rearranging Sassenach skeletons at Murrayfield last year that inspired his team to a famous victory.
The Sassenach was indeed out of his element on the Scotch hills.
Thus it was the McDonnell made his peace with the Sassenach.
This is in response to Darren Macleod, who for some strange reason wants to compare Andy Murray's rating in tennis to that of Mr Sassenach in his field, whatever that may be.
