How to Use nationhood in a Sentence

nationhood

noun

• The colonists showed a strong desire for nationhood.
• The nature of its postwar nationhood will change the idea of Europe.
  — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• Firstly, my people have fought long for our right to nationhood.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2022
• The appeal was to our senses of identity and nationhood, and the threats that exist to undermine them.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
• At home, six months of war have solidified Ukraine’s sense of nationhood.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2022
• Without a sense of nationhood, Ukrainians wouldn’t have the unity and collective will to resist at such a steep price.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2022
• Spain had to come to terms with Simon Bolivar and the growing sense of nationhood in Latin America.
  — Frank Lavin, Forbes, 7 June 2022
• The result has been an uncomfortable paradox: even as Taiwan has developed a sense of nationhood, much of the rest of the world has pulled away.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• And yet they have been largely left out of the broad discussion of nationhood that the government’s actions have prompted.
  — Patrick Kingsley Moises Saman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• This could be based either on the idea of nationhood, or at least, on some form of inclusive governance at the local level.
  — Benjamin Maiangwa, Quartz Africa, 21 Oct. 2020
• And July 2 isn't even the only date that could lay a claim to being the real beginning of American nationhood.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 17 Sep. 1950
• Serbia considers Kosovo its own, the cradle of its nationhood—much like Putin views Ukraine.
  — Andrea Dudik, Bloomberg.com, 25 Jan. 2023
• The war of independence was about nationhood and freedom.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
• With democracy flourishing, and a greater share of the population born on the island, a sense of nationhood had taken hold.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• All of this is arguably part of an even larger identity war over heritage and nationhood that rages within much of the western world as well as Russia.
  — vanityfair.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• For a long time, the miracle was explained in terms of misty essences like genius or nationhood, though lately art history seems to have grown more modest in its claims.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• What is most offensive about the kneeling gesture is not the projection of disrespect for the symbols of nationhood.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 30 Sep. 2017
• Ukraine is struggling for its own nationhood, its own culture, its own identity.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Dec. 2019
• Next week’s official celebration of nationhood will be haunted by the protests of citizens who feel scorned by the nation they were born in.
  — Robert Zaretsky, WSJ, 8 July 2023
• Voters supposedly want to return to a sense of nationhood as against the overweening EU in Brussels.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 5 July 2018
• That Russian occupation came to an end in 1990, as Latvia took advantage of the collapse of the Soviet Union to reclaim its nationhood.
  — Simon Nixon, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2017
• After all, free trade between the states has been the sine qua non of American nationhood since the ratification of the Constitution in 1787.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 20 Sep. 2020
• All this is not to deny a common American sense of nationhood which has evolved since the tenuous links of the days of the Articles of Confederation.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2013
• That the contestants struggle to embody nationhood or signal selfless virtue while parading half-naked in heels does not matter.
  — Rhonda Garelick, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
• For a few decades after the end of British rule, modernism seemed the best way to project an idea of cosmopolitanism and independence and, for some, a progressive, secular vision of nationhood.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 17 May 2022
• To help promote this vision of a more tolerant, modern country driven by a strong sense of nationhood, MBS has unveiled a raft of new initiatives.
  — Bernard Haykel, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2024
• Even some who disagree with Mr Puigdemont’s methods believe Catalonia has a case for nationhood.
  — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
• More than just a practicality, Olympic uniforms are totems of nationhood and a country's values in themselves.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN, 14 June 2021
• Rather, the idea of English nationhood has always been defined in opposition, its origins lying in the country’s estrangement from a French court in 1066.
  — Sahil Handa, National Review, 10 June 2019
• The original version, published in the print edition of the magazine, makes no mention of Palestinian nationhood.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024