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Example sentences for: motherland

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This, too, caused major upheavals, and a million permanent refugees rushed the motherland, aggravating the shortage of housing and jobs.
Of course, the notion that Asian-Americans are torn between an outward allegiance to this country and a hard-wired fealty to some Oriental motherland has a long and undistinguished pedigree.
Portugal then disengaged itself from Mozambique and Angola, its seething colonial possessions in Africa, and the country absorbed the million or so refugees who fled to a motherland most had never seen.
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.