Example sentences for: fatherland

How can you use “fatherland” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • (`Hurrah for the fatherland'?)

  • Yeltsin, says the paper, met with Chernomyrdin in person and gave him a farewell award for "Services to the Fatherland," while the other big names got it in the neck on the phone.

  • In a school essay, Stauffenberg wrote of Speer-like architectural ambitions: "Every building will, so to speak, represent a temple dedicated to the German nation and fatherland."

  • But were it not for the 1920s, and for the historical value of the Nazi and East German documents, this collection might rival Ruritarian Photographs of a Century , with its obligatory nods to every passing wrinkle of fashion devised elsewhere, its dull portraits of statesmen unknown outside the fatherland, its honorable but unexceptional petits maîtres . This, from a nation which invented the Leica, comes as something of a surprise.

  • Another recommended priority: to "restore confidence in the spirit of nationalism," because "the rate at which Nigerians flee their fatherland or vandalise public property should worry any government of the people anywhere."


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