Example sentences for: patriot

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

  • In 1895 José Martí, Cuba’s most venerated patriot (who now has a street, square, or building named after him in every town), led the next and most important uprising against Spain.

  • Pundits are wowed by his basic American-ness: "an American original" (Mark Shields, NewsHour ; Tim Russert, Meet the Press ); "an honest American" (Shields, Capital Gang ); "a genuine American patriot" (Hunt, Capital Gang ); "a genuine American hero" (Dan Quayle, Fox News Sunday ); and "the Bulworth of his generation" (Clarence Page, ABC's This Week ).

  • The church has had some colorful preachers too from patriot Sam Parker to Phillips Brooks, author of O Little Town of Bethlehem, and a prodigious gourmet, who also loved the track, billiards, and fly-fishing.

  • This program is intended to enhance the Patriot system, an air-defense, guided missile system.

  • The Patriot Act vests substantial powers in our federal government.


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