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Example sentences for: motherland

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Puerto Rico quickly developed into a major port and trading post — it was one of the last major ports Spanish galleons stopped in before sailing back to the motherland.
Diasporan identity holds that the "motherland" is worthy of sustained loyalty.
They performed poorly in far-flung adventures (the Russo-Japanese War, for example) but savaged invaders when the Motherland was under attack.
Many died from disease and malnutrition before the work was complete, but the dockyard proved to be a bastion of the British Empire and served to protect the motherland even as recently as World War II.
The emotional connection to the motherland becomes more intense than the connection to reality.