patria
Example Sentences
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He reportedly referred to Peru, where around three quarters of people are Catholic, as "mi segunda patria" – my second homeland.
From BBC ● May 9, 2025
Some enslaved people were sold into bondage through patria potestas.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
He’d cry out lines from one of Darío’s most notable works, “Si la patria es pequeña...”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
She said had never considered leaving her patria, her motherland, until now.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2017
"What’s patria potcdtadV I asked, partly because it bothered me that my parents had never answered my question, partly because I wanted an excuse not to think about Doc Machado. "
From "The Red Umbrella" by Christina Gonzalez
