patriotic
Example Sentences
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But it also faced bans from radio stations and attracted musical counterpunches, most notably Barry Sadler’s patriotic No. 1 hit, “The Ballad of the Green Berets.”
He has played on patriotic sentiment after the two short border wars with Cambodia last year, and promising to defend the status of traditional Thai institutions like the monarchy and military.
From BBC
And why wouldn’t they choose a more patriotic, Anglo-American artist?
From Los Angeles Times
Lincoln even foresaw a kind of “patriotic fusion” to reconstruct the South once the fighting ended.
Alexander Hamilton lauded the “patriotic motives” behind Slater’s Mill in his “Report on the Subject of Manufactures External link” on Dec. 5, 1791.
From Barron's
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