one's country
Example Sentences
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In recent days Wang Hung-wei, a prominent lawmaker from the opposition Kuomintang party, criticised Zero Day Attack as "selling dried mangoes", a Taiwanese euphemism that means stoking unnecessary fear about the destruction of one's country.
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2025
Across much of the world, soldierliness is considered a virtue and fighting for one’s country a natural way to serve it.
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2023
Jackson’s next attack on the now-president wasn’t about fiscal policy or the duty to serve one’s country.
From Slate • Aug. 31, 2018
They preached an extreme form of nationalism, or loyalty to one’s country.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
While they taught that duty to one’s country is the greatest thing, we already knew that death-throes are stronger.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
