fatherland

Example Sentences

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There was nothing else but themselves they could dedicate themselves to—no patria, no fatherland, no nation as yet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

"We have to defend the fatherland," he tells the BBC, echoing speeches given by President Maduro in the wake of the strikes on the boats.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2025

"We are strongly motivated to defend our fatherland, and this is the best remedy for fear," he said.

From Reuters • Aug. 17, 2023

A new ideology extols the Orthodox Church, the fatherland, the family and the “the spiritual over the material.”

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2023

Once I hoped it would become a fatherland to me, since I had lost my own.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank