patriotic

Example Sentences

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He has played on patriotic sentiment after the two short border wars with Cambodia last year, and promising to defend the status of traditional Thai institutions like the monarchy and military.

From BBC

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