land of promise
Example Sentences
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Senate, Scott often points to his personal story as proof that America remains a land of promise.
From Reuters • May 19, 2023
“They really felt like this was the land of promise, and so we want our children to have an education, but I think they were also quite scared of American culture,” she says.
From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2021
A land of promise and false promises, built on swamps and speculation, purported site of the Fountain of Youth and a place where people go to die.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2019
Hired in 2015, the year the IOC picked Beijing as the first city to host both summer and winter games, Pain saw China as a land of promise.
From Washington Times • Feb. 23, 2018
I now began to think that there was a spell upon my movements, and that Smyrna, which was becoming to me a sort of land of promise, would never greet my longing eyes.
From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by Stephens, John Lloyd
