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

One of President Putin's biggest cheerleaders, ex-president Dmitry Medvedev, who sits on the Russian security council, said in recent days that there were "special rules" in wartime for traitors who "wish their fatherland to perish".

From BBC

Many of Jair Bolsonaro's supporters saw him as a "saviour" who they said defended values they hold dear, which they listed as "God, fatherland, family".

From BBC

Separately, Russian politicians began debating punishment for Russians who oppose the war in Ukraine and who, as the former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said, "wish their fatherland to perish."

From Reuters

Dispossessed of his father and fatherland, a rootless Eastern European Jew on a continent gripped by nationalist fever, Roth’s self-identity was especially tenuous.

From Washington Post