How to Use fatherland in a Sentence

fatherland

noun

• There are many that have to pay a debt to the fatherland.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2020
• At the altar of the fatherland, Bishop Talleyrand led a mass.
  — Merrill Fabry, Time, 13 July 2017
• The Allies turned the highways against the Germans late in the war, quickly flooding the fatherland with men and equipment.
  — Fox News, 18 June 2022
• The black wings, the president’s administration and the new elite, don’t dare to fly out over the fatherland . . .
  — Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• The fatherland bade auf wiedersehen: United, free, at peace...for now.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 23 June 2017
• So the military sent diggers to cut roads into the forest and encouraged people to go down them and plant a flag for the fatherland.
  — Andrew Downie, Time, 3 Dec. 2022
• Cincinnati was virtually bilingual, with news from the fatherland at one time printed in the native tongue sold to nearly half of the city.
  — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• There is a strong element of it in the Nazi emphasis on ‘‘blood and soil,’’ and the fatherland, and the need for a living space purified of alien and undesirable elements.
  — Joel Achenbach, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2019
• The bond between America’s most substantial ethnic minority and the national sport of their fatherland is as tight as El Tri’s backline.
  — Roy Bragg, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Jan. 2018
• Never one to shy away from controversy or provocation, Rodriguez considers the concept of fatherhood through the bittersweet legacy and heritage of the fatherland, in this case Mexico.
  — Rigoberto González, NBC News, 16 June 2017
• Ever since the Holocaust, generations of Germans have come to uncomfortable terms with their fatherland’s history.
  — Henry Porter, vanityfair.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• Elections have been delayed, rules to rewrite a constitution that usually require a referendum have been ignored and civilians are being brought before military tribunals on charges of betraying the fatherland.
  — Daniel Cancel, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2017
• Thousands of admirers of Jaguarina went out to see the great swordswoman measure blades with her skillful antagonist while the stalwart Captain Wiedermann, of many battles, attracted a legion of representatives of the far-off Teutonic fatherland....
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2022
• At one point there’s an extravagant expiration montage, as one fictional, suffering Reich martyr after another dies on camera, for the fatherland.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 10 May 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024