motherland

Example Sentences

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“I’m standing there, a young officer, and I say, ‘I’m defending the motherland,’” Poltava recalled.

From New York Times

“They are ready to honor their duty to the motherland according to the specialization they trained for, not as assault infantry.”

From Washington Post

It too has been a cheerleader for Africa - singing about the beauty of the continent, boasting of its natural resources while calling for people in the diaspora to return to the motherland.

From BBC

“They can call us traitors, but we are the ones who protect the motherland from them,” former justice minister Tzipi Livni said at the Tel Aviv protest.

From Washington Post

Putin said Russia was fighting in Ukraine to protect its “motherland” and called 2022 “a year of hard, necessary decisions” and “fateful events” that had laid the foundation for Russia’s future.

From Washington Post