How to Use homeland in a Sentence

homeland

noun

• He returned to his homeland for the first time in many years.
• The rebels are fighting for an independent homeland.
• The McCloud River lies at the heart of their traditional homeland, which the tribe lost when the reservoir was filled.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
• All the pictures were made by Shah in her homeland, Kenya, where she was born to Indian parents.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
• The Osage consider the area to be part of their ancestral homeland.
  — Bill Bowden, arkansasonline.com, 16 Nov. 2023
• Yet in a warming climate, their homelands are in some of the most at-risk environments.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
• Back in his homeland of South Korea, Kim’s grandfather was a farmer.
  — Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2023
• Calling on the strength of his ancestors, a young Mi’kmaq man reflects on the pain of bearing witness to the destruction of his homelands.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 12 Dec. 2023
• In the video, Bad Bunny and his crew descend upon a beach in Puerto Rico, where the homeland crowd embraces the artist as a hero that’s returned home.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, Rolling Stone, 24 Dec. 2023
• The disease was known as phthisis to the ancient Greeks and the physician Hippocrates reports that many in his homeland succumbed to the illness.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2024
• After the deaths of Jean Jacques’ relatives, the situation in his homeland has grown worse.
  — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
• This is a win for the DHS workforce, for the capital region, and for our homeland security.
  — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 17 Aug. 2023
• The Callum Skye, though, has been conceived, designed, and engineered in-house, and named for the stunning isle on the west coast of Scotland, Callum’s homeland.
  — Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 27 Nov. 2023
• Its workers leave their homeland, working hard labor for low pay.
  — WIRED, 15 July 2023
• The tropical juice reminded him of his homeland, Chile.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 24 May 2023
• And as teased at the end of season 1, soldiers of the Seanchan Empire have arrived from across the sea in order to conquer their ancestral homeland.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 24 May 2023
• Lina’s friends are willing to risk all in order to save a homeland that, alas, ultimately forces most of them to flee, and seems no closer to peace years later.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 May 2023
• In any case, as a Scot, I’m offended my homeland was omitted (not really).
  — Kris Holt, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• The Bruins found a way to make the playoffs two seasons ago, when Krejci departed for his homeland to fulfill a dream.
  — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2023
• Soble supports two states, in part to maintain a Jewish homeland in the event global antisemitism again rises near the extremes of the Holocaust.
  — Detroit Free Press, 1 Jan. 2024
• Candles, flowers, photos of the victims and flags of their homelands mark a makeshift sidewalk altar and shrine for the casualties.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
• For 75 years now, they have been forced to live as a stateless population without the ability to return to their homeland.
  — Michael Vicente Perez, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
• In her lifetime, Lazarus advocated for Jewish refugees and the creation of a Jewish homeland.
  — Sari Beth Rosenberg, Parents, 5 Mar. 2024
• Some of the protesters also said their struggle for People’s Park had much in common with the fight of Palestinian people to have a safe and secure homeland in the Mideast.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2024
• This compelling signet ring is a tribute to the designer’s homeland of Chile, the verdant landscapes and geology of the Andes.
  — Kate Matthams, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Migrants who do not follow the rules, the government has said, could be deported back to their homelands and barred from seeking asylum for five years.
  — Julie Watson and Gisela Salomon, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
• The children, hundreds of them gathered in makeshift classrooms, had arrived in this aid camp in recent months after fleeing the war in their homeland of Sudan.
  — Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• Having a homeland was of vital importance for the early Zionists.
  — Rabbi David Baum, Sun Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2023
• Film is part of a trilogy by director Tomás Alzamora, all inspired by his homeland.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 8 Aug. 2023
• The sport’s administrators presented to Davies while on a visit to his homeland.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 25 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024