PATRIOTISM in a Sentence

Learn PATRIOTISM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

64 example sentences for PATRIOTISM, such as:

1. Not a patriot at all, but simply.
2. I realize that patriotism is not enough.
3. The old man is a patriotic overseas Chinese.
4. The patriots fought under the banner of freedom.
5. Perhaps that is what is called patriotism, love of home and country.

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 Meanings and Examples of PATRIOTISM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
patriotism
 n.  love of country; devotion to welfare of one's country; virtues and actions of patriot
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  The other women were simply silly and hysterical with their talk of patriotism and the Cause, and the men were almost as bad with their talk of vital issues and States' Rights.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  Perhaps that is what is called patriotism, love of home and country.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  But now, even the most strait laced felt that patriotism called upon them to be more broad minded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  He could no more resist pricking the conceits, the hypocrisies and the flamboyant patriotism of those about him than a small boy can resist putting a pin into a balloon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  Nor can I masquerade in a cloak of romance and patriotism, no matter how convenient it might be.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  They don't need me among their number, either to brighten the record of patriotism or to increase the roll of paupers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  The carriage and horse she donated to the hospital in a burst of patriotism which she immediately regretted and that brought on more tears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
8  It won't occur to them that women of--their profession are capable of intense loyalty or patriotism.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
9  She had affected to look with some contempt upon the quality of his war ardor and patriotism.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
10  Yes, the feeling animating our so-called "patriots" is not true patriotism at all.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
11  Before Shinshin had time to utter the joke he was ready to make on the count's patriotism, Natasha jumped up from her place and ran to her father.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XX
12  When Miss Chatterley--Emma--came down to London from the Midlands to do some nursing work, she was very witty in a quiet way about Sir Geoffrey and his determined patriotism.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
13  We visited the tomb of the illustrious Hampden and the field on which that patriot fell.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
14  Not a patriot at all, but simply.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XX
15  Washington was called, and he arose to acknowledge and accept, there was such an outburst of applause as greeted no other name except that of the popular soldier patriot, General Miles.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVII.
Example Sentence:
1  I realize that patriotism is not enough.
2  The trade union movement was swept along by the same tidal wave of patriotism which affected the country as a whole.
3  You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
4  You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality.
5  Among the potent factors in developing and enriching our patriotism is the constant singing of our national anthem.
6  Provided the mission concludes successfully though, the state media are likely to fuel a surge of triumphant patriotism.
7  Their hatred for a scab is as terrible as the hatred of a patriot for a traitor, of a Christian for a Judas.
8  Irish patriot who fought for the rights of Irish Catholics and was executed for his part in a bungled uprising against the British.
9  The allegiance of a true patriot is to the country and the principles it stands on, not to a leader.
10  The patriot adheres to certain patriotic values, such as respect for a flag.
11  While the president was happy to bandy patriotic generalizations with anyone who would listen to him, he refused to exchange words with unfriendly reporters at the press conference.
12  The old man is a patriotic overseas Chinese.
13  Knowing the importance of appearing resolute, the patriots sought to present a monolithic front.
14  The patriots fought under the banner of freedom.