How to Use motherland in a Sentence

motherland

noun
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  • Plant your feet firmly in the motherland and watch the world.
    — The New York Times, New York Times, 24 July 2017
  • The soldiers run through the forest, through the surf, through smoke and flames, ready to die for the motherland.
    — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Nana spoke about roasting a pig back in the motherland.
    — Illyanna Maisonet, SFChronicle.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • But the motherland of butter and oak has evolved with a wave of new openings.
    — Paul Brady, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Mar. 2017
  • In some cases, the slackers are the ones who stayed behind to live off the motherland.
    — Ruben Navarrette, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2017
  • This is done in the name of protection of the motherland, which the newly marginalized are said to hate.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 21 July 2019
  • Tamar Braxton took some time off to visit the motherland and is having the time of her life!
    — Jasmine Grant, Essence, 30 July 2019
  • What better place to test-drive them than the motherland of fanny packs, Times Square?
    — Kyle Stiansen, Teen Vogue, 24 July 2017
  • As an expat from the UK, I'm used to waking up to a rash of messages from the motherland and beyond.
    — Adam Charlton, CNN, 17 July 2022
  • Irish patchwork quilts made their debut in the motherland in the early 1800s.
    — Brenda Yenke, cleveland.com, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Such a rupture with the motherland is not done lightly.
    — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2022
  • In one sense, the government was not entirely wrong to say the athletes were the good children of the motherland.
    — Perry Link, National Review, 10 Feb. 2022
  • For many years, Pinot Noir’s main stomping grounds were in its motherland of Burgundy, France.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
  • And the signs are that an increasing number of them are turning their backs on their motherland and on the Kremlin.
    — Gordon F. Sander, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2023
  • Many of them are homages to his motherland, love songs to this Caribbean island.
    — Author: Arelis R. Hernandez, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2018
  • But the motherland would be consigned to the chapters of history.
    — Shafi Musaddique, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2021
  • And the overwhelmed sons of the motherland dug in and emerged triumphant against improbable odds.
    — Brian Straus, SI.com, 1 July 2018
  • She’s done nothing except teach children to play the guitar and write and sing songs about her motherland.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2022
  • The team was still accused by many online of having failed their motherland.
    — Jane Li, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Cultural bonds, and the growing wealth of the motherland, are powerful forces to pull them back.
    — The Economist, 17 May 2018
  • The Pedophile Plan: rape a child, sign up in the opposition, emigrate, expose the flaws of the motherland and all will be well.
    — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2016
  • The example that struck me most is this long bit about visiting Africa, the joy and pride of visiting the motherland.
    — Joe Fassler, The Atlantic, 31 May 2018
  • If the ancient clans of motherland are calling your name, this trip will feel straight out of an epic fantasy film.
    — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Chen, like me, is Taiwanese-American and was born in the Midwest and raised in California where the food of the motherland was hard to come by at the time.
    — Darice Chang, Bon Appétit, 6 Jan. 2022
  • My motherland is mercilessly shelled from the land, sea and air.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The motherland and Stalin are the subject of snide jokes that Sergey and his fellow soldiers like to tell one another.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2022
  • After all, as there is no such thing as a choice of mother tongue, there is no such thing as a choice of motherland, or, for that matter, of a mother.
    — Sigrid Nunez, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2021
  • Imagine turkey and all the fixings in the Pilgrims’ motherland.
    — Donna Bulseco, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Very few of their assets have been confiscated by Western countries – and the Kremlin has given them a stark choice: support the motherland or lose everything.
    — Tim Lister, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Our motherland must be reunified, and it will surely be reunified.
    — Eryk Michael Smith, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2024

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