patriot

Example Sentences

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"He didn't want to, but he had do it. He was a patriot," Natalia explains, through her tears.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026

"He was a professional officer who put national interests first and a patriot who loved his country," the mission added.

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

As Eran Shalev, a professor of history at Haifa University, shows in “The Star-Spangled Republic,” Lemen was hardly the only patriot with his head in the clouds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

Dr. King was an American patriot who was martyred for trying to bend the arc of the moral universe to justice.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2025

Gino was a patriot, so he said things that separated us sometimes, but he was also a fine boy and 1 understood his being a patriot.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway