How to Use mother country in a Sentence

mother country

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  • Greece can boast to being the mother country of democracy.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Protracted economic separation from the mother country drove the colonies to rebel against Spain and enter the trading orbit of Britain.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 5 May 2020
  • Internal political squabbles in both places could be as intense as those with the mother countries.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • The celebrations became so widespread that by the 1970s, they had been exported back to the mother country of Ireland herself, which now celebrates the feast day of her native son in much the same way as Americans.
    — Will Jeakle, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Her piercing satires of British authorities, published in Boston newspapers starting in 1772, had prepared colonists for the final break with the mother country.
    — Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 20 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Among the Commonwealth countries, more former colonial subjects are moving to sever the ties that make the mother country’s monarch their head of state: Barbados did so last year; its Caribbean cousin Jamaica has signaled intent to do likewise.
    — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Williams journeyed back to the mother country in the 1640s to obtain a royal charter and found England embroiled in a civil war, amid fierce debates on religion and legislative autonomy that were to parallel those in America.
    — Roger Lowenstein, WSJ, 13 June 2018
  • These were established leaders in their states and communities who quite remarkably embraced the concept of breaking ties with a mother country of whom many considered themselves loyal subjects.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 3 July 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
  • Even after independence, neither the former mother country nor Napoleonic France respected American maritime rights.
    — Roger Lowenstein, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2018
  • Decades after independence, these countries remain underdeveloped, lagging behind the former mother country on every metric.
    — Kehinde Andrews, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2022

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