How to Use motherland in a Sentence

motherland

noun

• The motherland, the place that is such a part of us, and yet so not?
  — Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
• Plant your feet firmly in the motherland and watch the world.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 24 July 2017
• This isn’t the first time that food from the motherland has had me in a chokehold.
  — Andre James, Charlotte Observer, 25 Feb. 2026
• 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
• 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
• The team was still accused by many online of having failed their motherland.
  — Jane Li, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2022
• We are made in the water, birthed from a pregnant motherland each time her water point breaks.
  — Outside Online, 5 Mar. 2025
• My motherland is mercilessly shelled from the land, sea and air.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Mar. 2022
• Newsweek has mapped tongues from other motherlands, and German comes third.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
• Tamar Braxton took some time off to visit the motherland and is having the time of her life!
  — Jasmine Grant, Essence, 30 July 2019
• 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
• 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.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 11 June 2017
• If the ancient clans of motherland are calling your name, this trip will feel straight out of an epic fantasy film.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 30 Mar. 2023
• Take a trip over to the boutique to get a true sense of appreciation for the motherland.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 28 June 2024
• What better place to test-drive them than the motherland of fanny packs, Times Square?
  — Kyle Stiansen, Teen Vogue, 24 July 2017
• Irie Nights invites the city out to dance, eat, and enjoy the best sounds from the islands to the motherland.
  — Marcus Smith, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2025
• But the motherland would be consigned to the chapters of history.
  — Shafi Musaddique, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2021
• Cultural bonds, and the growing wealth of the motherland, are powerful forces to pull them back.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• And the overwhelmed sons of the motherland dug in and emerged triumphant against improbable odds.
  — Brian Straus, SI.com, 1 July 2018
• 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
• 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
• The barbers all wore dashikis or T-shirts that celebrated the motherland.
  — D. Watkins, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
• That brings us to this space of transformation, the vision of growth and connecting to the motherland.
  — Duante Beddingfield, Freep.com, 4 Oct. 2025
• That means rearranging the survivors – and four less to defend the motherland.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 19 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
• After all, as there is no such thing as a choice of mother tongue, there is no such thing as a choice of motherland, or, for that matter, of a mother.
  — Sigrid Nunez, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2021
• And love for the motherland should not be manifested in the encouragement of crime.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 Apr. 2023
• Irish patchwork quilts made their debut in the motherland in the early 1800s.
  — Brenda Yenke, cleveland.com, 15 Mar. 2018