How to Use fatherland in a Sentence

fatherland

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  • There are many that have to pay a debt to the fatherland.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2020
  • At the altar of the fatherland, Bishop Talleyrand led a mass.
    — Merrill Fabry, Time, 13 July 2017
  • The Allies turned the highways against the Germans late in the war, quickly flooding the fatherland with men and equipment.
    — Fox News, 18 June 2022
  • The black wings, the president’s administration and the new elite, don’t dare to fly out over the fatherland . . .
    — Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • The fatherland bade auf wiedersehen: United, free, at peace...for now.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 23 June 2017
  • So the military sent diggers to cut roads into the forest and encouraged people to go down them and plant a flag for the fatherland.
    — Andrew Downie, Time, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Cincinnati was virtually bilingual, with news from the fatherland at one time printed in the native tongue sold to nearly half of the city.
    — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 27 Sep. 2017
  • There is a strong element of it in the Nazi emphasis on ‘‘blood and soil,’’ and the fatherland, and the need for a living space purified of alien and undesirable elements.
    — Joel Achenbach, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2019
  • The bond between America’s most substantial ethnic minority and the national sport of their fatherland is as tight as El Tri’s backline.
    — Roy Bragg, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Never one to shy away from controversy or provocation, Rodriguez considers the concept of fatherhood through the bittersweet legacy and heritage of the fatherland, in this case Mexico.
    — Rigoberto González, NBC News, 16 June 2017
  • Ever since the Holocaust, generations of Germans have come to uncomfortable terms with their fatherland’s history.
    — Henry Porter, vanityfair.com, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Elections have been delayed, rules to rewrite a constitution that usually require a referendum have been ignored and civilians are being brought before military tribunals on charges of betraying the fatherland.
    — Daniel Cancel, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2017
  • Thousands of admirers of Jaguarina went out to see the great swordswoman measure blades with her skillful antagonist while the stalwart Captain Wiedermann, of many battles, attracted a legion of representatives of the far-off Teutonic fatherland....
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
  • At one point there’s an extravagant expiration montage, as one fictional, suffering Reich martyr after another dies on camera, for the fatherland.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 10 May 2018

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