How to Use homeland in a Sentence

homeland

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  • He returned to his homeland for the first time in many years.
  • The rebels are fighting for an independent homeland.
  • After Azheh’s death, the boy tries to fulfill her will to be buried in his homeland.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The acreage acquired through these deals restores the tribe’s homeland.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
  • For centuries, Nepalese have left their homeland to work.
    — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
  • In my homeland, the entirety of Belarus is in a prison.
    — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
  • In response, Chairman Blanchard said the Band's homeland, treaty rights and way of life are not for sale.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2024
  • All of this fuels Gashaw’s pride in her Ethiopian homeland.
    — Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2023
  • In their homeland, boas and pythons have to contend with other large snakes and predators, such as big cats.
    — Benji Jones, Vox, 21 May 2024
  • The migrants are part of a steady stream of Cubans seeking refugee status in the U.S. in hard economic times in their homeland.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Undeterred, and with no homeland to go back to, Hmong refugees embraced the United States as their home.
    — Amy Qin, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The McCloud River lies at the heart of their traditional homeland, which the tribe lost when the reservoir was filled.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
  • His mother is in his homeland where he is not allowed to return.
    — John Bleasdale, Variety, 5 Dec. 2022
  • All the pictures were made by Shah in her homeland, Kenya, where she was born to Indian parents.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The Osage consider the area to be part of their ancestral homeland.
    — Bill Bowden, arkansasonline.com, 16 Nov. 2023
  • But the themes of persecution and the need for a Jewish homeland were deeply embedded in me.
    — Jill Gurvey, Twin Cities, 2 May 2024
  • Old friends were now living in the city’s districts, after having been forced to leave their homelands.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Yet in a warming climate, their homelands are in some of the most at-risk environments.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Back in his homeland of South Korea, Kim’s grandfather was a farmer.
    — Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2023
  • Buttery and flaky, the soft sticks come with molten centers of chihuahua cheese, the pleasant saltiness of which compares to the white cheese used in the chefs’ homeland, says Useche.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
  • But that criticism might not be the case in his adopted homeland, Lipscomb said.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The residents cook dishes from their homeland to share with their housemates.
    — Janelle Davis, CNN, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Calling on the strength of his ancestors, a young Mi’kmaq man reflects on the pain of bearing witness to the destruction of his homelands.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 12 Dec. 2023
  • In the video, Bad Bunny and his crew descend upon a beach in Puerto Rico, where the homeland crowd embraces the artist as a hero that’s returned home.
    — Frances Solá-Santiago, Rolling Stone, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The disease was known as phthisis to the ancient Greeks and the physician Hippocrates reports that many in his homeland succumbed to the illness.
    — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2024
  • After the deaths of Jean Jacques’ relatives, the situation in his homeland has grown worse.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
  • This is a win for the DHS workforce, for the capital region, and for our homeland security.
    — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 17 Aug. 2023
  • In many respects, Kim-boy and his friends and family have been made foreigners in their own homeland.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2023
  • In a refugee camp in Uganda, one restaurant owner is trying to resurrect his homeland with food.
    — Sophie Neiman, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Oct. 2024
  • John Kelly, who, of course, was – was his secretary of homeland security.
    — ABC News, 27 Oct. 2024

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