land of promise
Example Sentences
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Senate, Scott often points to his personal story as proof that America remains a land of promise.
From Reuters • May 19, 2023
“They really felt like this was the land of promise, and so we want our children to have an education, but I think they were also quite scared of American culture,” she says.
From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2021
A land of promise and false promises, built on swamps and speculation, purported site of the Fountain of Youth and a place where people go to die.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2019
If we protest and risk death or imprisonment, it is because we believe our country has the potential to become “the land of promise, land of glory” we sing about in our national anthem.
From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2017
It carried me to the Pacific slope, and showed me indeed a land of promise.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe
