fatherland

Example Sentences

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There was nothing else but themselves they could dedicate themselves to—no patria, no fatherland, no nation as yet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

"Even the cats will come out here to shoot, to defend our fatherland," he says.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2025

A new ideology extols the Orthodox Church, the fatherland, the family and the “the spiritual over the material.”

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2023

"This public holiday marks the inseparability of our centuries-old history, the greatness and glory of the fatherland," Putin told the assembled dignitaries.

From Reuters • Jun. 12, 2023

Amongst the tales they related to me were those of wars fought by our ancestors in defense of the fatherland.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela