patria

Example Sentences

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He reportedly referred to Peru, where around three quarters of people are Catholic, as "mi segunda patria" – my second homeland.

From BBC • May 9, 2025

Some enslaved people were sold into bondage through patria potestas.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

“O patria mia,” Aida’s great Act III aria, was crooned and disjointed.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2022

He’d cry out lines from one of Darío’s most notable works, “Si la patria es pequeña...”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2022

"What’s patria potcdtadV I asked, partly because it bothered me that my parents had never answered my question, partly because I wanted an excuse not to think about Doc Machado. "

From "The Red Umbrella" by Christina Gonzalez