How to Use native land in a Sentence

native land

noun
  • God commands Abram to leave his native land in search of a new one.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 22 Mar. 2026
  • For Ismail, the school is a dream with roots in his native land.
    — Samah Assad, CBS News, 14 Dec. 2025
  • To lose your home, your native land, that’s like falling from a bridge into a huge abyss with no way back.
    — Lizzie Johnson, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
  • There are no native land mammals, no reptiles and barely a trace of higher plant life.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Put it all together, and this tree is a significant threat to native land and wildlife.
    — Mariyam Muhammad, The Enquirer, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The areas that national parks are now in are all indigenous native land.
    — Outside, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The Chinese revive thoughts of the ancestors of his native land.
    — Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 15 Jan. 2025
  • As to what Downey is ascribing to his native land, Murphy can do nothing but laugh.
    — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The most recent, the hoary bat, is the only remaining native land mammal in Hawaii.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2023
  • This mess of sweetness is now known as kaiserschmarrn, a specialty dish that can sometimes be had as a main course in its native land.
    — Zoe Li, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
  • An immigration court granted him approval to stay amid concerns of turmoil in his native land.
    — Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 16 Apr. 2025
  • In her native land, Lang remains half honored, at best, or guarded like a secret by a devoted few.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Yup, Dracula’s onboard, sleeping during the day in a coffin filled with dirt from his native land.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Geppert feels there are echoes of the Nazism that once took over her native land now playing out in the United States.
    — Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Celebrating the reggae icon's birthday in our native land was a special treat for this superfan.
    — Essence, 24 Feb. 2024
  • For the Cliffords, using the prairie sage that grows in their native land of South Dakota is part of their daily life.
    — Naydeline Mejia, Women's Health, 22 Mar. 2023
  • In the basement of her home in Woodstock, Sushmita Mitra schools young girls in the dances of her native land.
    — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2023
  • Once in a new environment, surrounded by novel hosts, a pathogen that caused little or no harm in its native land could quickly spiral out of control.
    — Jennifer Latner, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
  • In their native land, coffee trees typically grow in the understory of tropical forests.
    — Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Furiosa spends the rest of the movie trying to return to her native land, though she’s occasionally distracted by fantasies of revenge.
    — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 8 May 2024
  • Jewish people offer a voice as a people who have both returned to independence in their native land and have maintained a very strong diasporic community.
    — Scott Meltzer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
  • More than 20 years ago, when the Tlingit residents of Hoonah in coastal Alaska decided to build a cruise port on native land, the stakes were high.
    — Elaine Glusac, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Conservationists think winds from last August’s Hurricane Idalia carried the birds to their native land.
    — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 11 June 2024
  • Despite the hopes of many American Catholics, Leo will not mark the country’s 250th anniversary in his native land.
    — Francis X. Rocca, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Lincoln now began to envision them as not merely free Americans but also equal Americans, fighting for their native land, the land of their birth.
    — Akhil Reed Amar, Time, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The lavish sensuous details bespeak Goldberg’s love for his native land, which is as profound as his contempt for its corrupt political system.
    — Wendy Smith, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
  • He was eventually imprisoned for making terroristic bomb threats in his native land, where he had also been committed to mental institutions.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2023
  • In recent years the native land, one of Brazil’s first, has been invaded by thousands of land grabbers and miners, sparking frequent clashes with indigenous security forces.
    — Adriana Brasileiro, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Many first-generation Taiwanese Americans have felt stronger connections to their native land in recent years as China has threatened the island.
    — Amy Qin, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The only native land mammals are two types of bat, so New Zealand’s birds, which evolved eccentrically before human and predator arrival, have become beloved national symbols.
    — ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026

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