How to Use motherland in a Sentence

motherland

noun

• Plant your feet firmly in the motherland and watch the world.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 24 July 2017
• The soldiers run through the forest, through the surf, through smoke and flames, ready to die for the motherland.
  — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2020
• Nana spoke about roasting a pig back in the motherland.
  — Illyanna Maisonet, SFChronicle.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• But the motherland of butter and oak has evolved with a wave of new openings.
  — Paul Brady, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Mar. 2017
• In some cases, the slackers are the ones who stayed behind to live off the motherland.
  — Ruben Navarrette, The Mercury News, 25 Jan. 2017
• This is done in the name of protection of the motherland, which the newly marginalized are said to hate.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 21 July 2019
• Tamar Braxton took some time off to visit the motherland and is having the time of her life!
  — Jasmine Grant, Essence, 30 July 2019
• What better place to test-drive them than the motherland of fanny packs, Times Square?
  — Kyle Stiansen, Teen Vogue, 24 July 2017
• As an expat from the UK, I'm used to waking up to a rash of messages from the motherland and beyond.
  — Adam Charlton, CNN, 17 July 2022
• Irish patchwork quilts made their debut in the motherland in the early 1800s.
  — Brenda Yenke, cleveland.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Such a rupture with the motherland is not done lightly.
  — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2022
• Take a trip over to the boutique to get a true sense of appreciation for the motherland.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 28 June 2024
• In one sense, the government was not entirely wrong to say the athletes were the good children of the motherland.
  — Perry Link, National Review, 10 Feb. 2022
• For many years, Pinot Noir’s main stomping grounds were in its motherland of Burgundy, France.
  — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
• We are made in the water, birthed from a pregnant motherland each time her water point breaks.
  — Outside Online, 5 Mar. 2025
• And the signs are that an increasing number of them are turning their backs on their motherland and on the Kremlin.
  — Gordon F. Sander, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2023
• So come find me where motherland meets Mother Sea, let this tide carry us home, on wood, polyurethane, and soft top foam.
  — Outside Online, 5 Mar. 2025
• So come find me where motherland meets Mother Sea, let this tide carry us home, on wood, polyurethane, and soft top foam.
  — Outside Online, 5 Mar. 2025
• Many of them are homages to his motherland, love songs to this Caribbean island.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 11 June 2017
• Many of them are homages to his motherland, love songs to this Caribbean island.
  — Author: Arelis R. Hernandez, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2018
• Many of them are homages to his motherland, love songs to this Caribbean island.
  — Author: Arelis R. Hernandez, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Mar. 2018
• But the motherland would be consigned to the chapters of history.
  — Shafi Musaddique, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2021
• And the overwhelmed sons of the motherland dug in and emerged triumphant against improbable odds.
  — Brian Straus, SI.com, 1 July 2018
• She’s done nothing except teach children to play the guitar and write and sing songs about her motherland.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2022
• The team was still accused by many online of having failed their motherland.
  — Jane Li, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2022
• Cultural bonds, and the growing wealth of the motherland, are powerful forces to pull them back.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• The Pedophile Plan: rape a child, sign up in the opposition, emigrate, expose the flaws of the motherland and all will be well.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2016
• The example that struck me most is this long bit about visiting Africa, the joy and pride of visiting the motherland.
  — Joe Fassler, The Atlantic, 31 May 2018
• Russia’s invasion of Ukraine seems to have been motivated in part by Vladimir Putin’s desire to increase the motherland’s quantity of ethnic Russians.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
• While most fans would expect the Serbian player to exercise his nationalism by picking something from his motherland, but Jordan stated that’s sometimes not the case.
  — Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 17 Jan. 2025