How to Use nationhood in a Sentence

nationhood

noun
  • The colonists showed a strong desire for nationhood.
  • Firstly, my people have fought long for our right to nationhood.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Ukraine’s surge of nationalism and quest to build a new sense of nationhood is not a unique story.
    — Howard Lafranchi, Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The nature of its postwar nationhood will change the idea of Europe.
    — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Ukraine is struggling for its own nationhood, its own culture, its own identity.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Dec. 2019
  • At home, six months of war have solidified Ukraine’s sense of nationhood.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2022
  • There are all sorts of problems with basing one’s idea of nationhood, even loosely, on the case of Israel.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2025
  • About gender, class, nationhood.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 22 May 2026
  • The appeal was to our senses of identity and nationhood, and the threats that exist to undermine them.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
  • This could be based either on the idea of nationhood, or at least, on some form of inclusive governance at the local level.
    — Benjamin Maiangwa, Quartz Africa, 21 Oct. 2020
  • And yet they have been largely left out of the broad discussion of nationhood that the government’s actions have prompted.
    — Patrick Kingsley Moises Saman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Without a sense of nationhood, Ukrainians wouldn’t have the unity and collective will to resist at such a steep price.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2022
  • That the contestants struggle to embody nationhood or signal selfless virtue while parading half-naked in heels does not matter.
    — Rhonda Garelick, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Indeed, the whole question of nationhood is sidestepped by identifying artists according only to their cities of birth and death.
    — Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Or Janacek, who deployed similar brass fanfares for his own explorations of nationhood.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Next week’s official celebration of nationhood will be haunted by the protests of citizens who feel scorned by the nation they were born in.
    — Robert Zaretsky, WSJ, 8 July 2023
  • With democracy flourishing, and a greater share of the population born on the island, a sense of nationhood had taken hold.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • What is most offensive about the kneeling gesture is not the projection of disrespect for the symbols of nationhood.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 30 Sep. 2017
  • For a long time, the miracle was explained in terms of misty essences like genius or nationhood, though lately art history seems to have grown more modest in its claims.
    — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
  • After all, there is no single style of architecture that represents nationhood — or that does not, and should not, provoke debate.
    — Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Ellis concludes with an almost rueful recognition that the states had a distance to go before nationhood felt even a little secure.
    — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2021
  • All of this is arguably part of an even larger identity war over heritage and nationhood that rages within much of the western world as well as Russia.
    — vanityfair.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Serbia considers Kosovo its own, the cradle of its nationhood—much like Putin views Ukraine.
    — Andrea Dudik, Bloomberg.com, 25 Jan. 2023
  • As the country achieved independence from British rule, artists debated what new forms of nationhood, identity and art could look like.
    — Suyin Haynes, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
  • More than just a practicality, Olympic uniforms are totems of nationhood and a country's values in themselves.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN, 14 June 2021
  • Even some who disagree with Mr Puigdemont’s methods believe Catalonia has a case for nationhood.
    — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
  • And July 2 isn't even the only date that could lay a claim to being the real beginning of American nationhood.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 17 Sep. 1950
  • Spain had to come to terms with Simon Bolivar and the growing sense of nationhood in Latin America.
    — Frank Lavin, Forbes, 7 June 2022
  • In recent years, Iraqis of all backgrounds have tried to reclaim a sense of nationhood, despite the prevailing political order.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Months later, Northern Rhodesia achieved nationhood as the new republic of Zambia.
    — Sewell Chan, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018

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