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
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
"This public holiday marks the inseparability of our centuries-old history, the greatness and glory of the fatherland," Putin told the assembled dignitaries.
From Reuters • Jun. 12, 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
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