patriotic

Example Sentences

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And why wouldn’t they choose a more patriotic, Anglo-American artist?

From Los Angeles Times

Lincoln even foresaw a kind of “patriotic fusion” to reconstruct the South once the fighting ended.

From The Wall Street Journal

Alexander Hamilton lauded the “patriotic motives” behind Slater’s Mill in his “Report on the Subject of Manufactures External link” on Dec. 5, 1791.

From Barron's

You may very well believe that you are doing something patriotic, because it’s been sold so much that way.

From Salon

“If everybody sat down and only Imogene stood up, that would be patriotic.”

From Literature