Sentence example with the word 'motherland'

motherland

Definition n. the country where you were born

Last update: August 24, 2015


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The old Greek cities of the motherland were not formally subjects of the empire, but sovereign states, which assembled at Corinth as members of a great alliance, in which the Macedonian king was included as a member and held the office of captain-general.   [Please select]

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He was but defending his own home and here, as in the motherland, a man's house was his castle.   [Please select]

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I have spilt my blood in many lands, but the best was for my motherland.   [Please select]

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It might be supposed that the relations of the Spanish Americans would be most close with their motherland, Old Spain.   [Please select]

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Family ties between colonists and the motherland had, moreover, become few or loose.   [Please select]

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It was a dark day for the motherland when so many of her sons believed that she was the enemy of liberty.   [Please select]

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It followed, of course, that the motherland was superior to her children overseas.   [Please select]

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