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
It was a moment of collective humiliation, to have to leave one’s country under these circumstances.
From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2021
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
If it was so easy to lead one’s country in various directions, as if she was a pig on a string, why had he failed to lead her into chivalry, into justice and into peace?
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
