Example sentences for: patriotic

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

  • It is a short pastiche and parody of jingoist sentiment, swatches from a patriotic after-dinner speech at the local Elks Club, perhaps.

  • To which Brookhiser adds, "Don't carry a boom box either ." And the embarrassments pile up, one upon the other, and the patriotic reader wilts in his chair, and Washington ends up too ludicrous for words.

  • The name of gallium is not only a pun on the name of its discoverer, Lecoq de Boisbaudran, but a patriotic tribute to his native country—Latin Gallia , Gaul, France.

  • You get to be patriotic and hawkish.

  • [I]t may be the very irrelevance of royalty which has helped protect us from excesses of patriotic fervor," he wrote--comparing Australians favorably with Americans, who "have a cloying sentimentality about their history, their flag, their president and their system."


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