How to Use mother country in a Sentence

mother country

noun
  • Greece can boast to being the mother country of democracy.
  • Even so, Maduro’s ouster gave her a lot of hope for her mother country.
    — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
  • In my mother country, all the tools of propaganda would keep painful truths at bay.
    — Vadim Smyslov, WIRED, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Veins branching along my skin like the waterways of my mother country.
    — Lauren Vuong, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
  • And the long silences, late saliences of God and sound set like glyphs in the mother country, childhood.
    — Christian Wiman, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Korea, director Bong’s mother country, was our first choice in terms of where to debut the film.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Internal political squabbles in both places could be as intense as those with the mother countries.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2017
  • At this time, Amar points out, the individual Colonies were more in touch with the mother country than with one another.
    — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 May 2021
  • Latin Americans have always had a tricky relationship with their mother country.
    — Ed Morales, CNN, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Many British people felt that Auden had abandoned his mother country in its time of greatest need, and this was not soon forgotten.
    — Alan Jacobs, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
  • The Courant has reported, most colonists were not exactly mesmerized by the notion of severing ties with the mother country.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Ghosn’s decision to flee to Lebanon underlines the apparent strength of the diaspora’s bonds to the mother country.
    — Rashmee Roshan Lall, Quartz, 31 Dec. 2019
  • At a steakhouse chain in the middle of Kentucky — more than 5,000 miles away from its mother country — the Ukrainian flag still flies.
    — Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2022
  • At a steakhouse chain in the middle of Kentucky -- more than 5,000 miles away from its mother country -- the Ukrainian flag still flies.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Apr. 2022
  • For as Brand points out, the Loyalists were regarded as traitors for not having betrayed their country or, more precisely, their mother country.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Rich in mood and gripping in narrative, the book starred a protagonist who stood at odds with his mother country and the political apparatus consuming it.
    — David Morgan, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2025
  • That New Zealand was destined to match the mother country in population within two generations.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2010
  • Output in the new United States in 1776 was perhaps a quarter of that in its mother country, Great Britain.
    — Richard Vedder, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The skewers, simultaneously earthy and spicy, are served atop food-grade wax paper designed to mimic the newspaper on which suya is typically served in the mother country.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Their sources of intelligence repeatedly assured British leaders that the great majority of the colonists remained loyal to the mother country.
    — T.h. Breen, The New York Review of Books, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Born in South Korea, Yoo, 31, has always loved noodles, starting with kalguksu and jajangmyeon, two popular bowls back in the mother country.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Men arrived armed with Western money, built up commercial operations, exploited the local population and sent most of the profits back to the mother country.
    — Hettie O'Brien, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Nothing, however, was quite right, and the couple were ready to give up on Miranda’s mother country, and contemplated, among other places, Maryland instead.
    — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2022
  • These are especially attractive if the mother country belongs to the EU, since EU citizenship includes the right to work anywhere in the union.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2020
  • Later, to control immigration, the government in London limited colonial and Commonwealth subjects’ rights to live and work in the mother country.
    — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Decades after independence, these countries remain underdeveloped, lagging behind the former mother country on every metric.
    — Kehinde Andrews, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2022
  • This founding tenet of the Bel Paese now looks set to change — ending diaspora dreams of returning to the mother country, and meaning that Italians who move abroad risk denying citizenship to their descendants.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Even after independence, neither the former mother country nor Napoleonic France respected American maritime rights.
    — Roger Lowenstein, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2018
  • Gradually, Anglican provinces that had once been ruled from the mother country became self-governing members of a global Anglican Communion.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Their speeches were now peppered with professions of faith in the nation, in Magyar tradition, in the homeland, in national interests, in respectability, in middle-class values, in the family, in love of the mother country.
    — Paul Lendvai, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2019

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