How to Use homeland in a Sentence

homeland

noun

• He returned to his homeland for the first time in many years.
• The rebels are fighting for an independent homeland.
• The children were buried in Ecuador, the homeland of their mother.
  — CBS News, 23 Nov. 2024
• After Azheh’s death, the boy tries to fulfill her will to be buried in his homeland.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 13 Dec. 2022
• The acreage acquired through these deals restores the tribe’s homeland.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2023
• One journey back to the homeland doesn’t heal the pain of displacement.
  — Jacqueline Delgadillo, refinery29.com, 15 Sep. 2022
• For centuries, Nepalese have left their homeland to work.
  — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
• In my homeland, the entirety of Belarus is in a prison.
  — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
• Once Moana does that, her homeland will become one among many.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2024
• In response, Chairman Blanchard said the Band's homeland, treaty rights and way of life are not for sale.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2024
• One year later, many Afghans who – despite the odds – fled their homeland have learned to adapt to a new life in the United States.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 27 Aug. 2022
• To be sure, many really have moved on from their homeland.
  — John Hyatt, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• All of this fuels Gashaw’s pride in her Ethiopian homeland.
  — Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2023
• In their homeland, boas and pythons have to contend with other large snakes and predators, such as big cats.
  — Benji Jones, Vox, 21 May 2024
• The migrants are part of a steady stream of Cubans seeking refugee status in the U.S. in hard economic times in their homeland.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2022
• Undeterred, and with no homeland to go back to, Hmong refugees embraced the United States as their home.
  — Amy Qin, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2022
• The McCloud River lies at the heart of their traditional homeland, which the tribe lost when the reservoir was filled.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
• His mother is in his homeland where he is not allowed to return.
  — John Bleasdale, Variety, 5 Dec. 2022
• All the pictures were made by Shah in her homeland, Kenya, where she was born to Indian parents.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
• The Osage consider the area to be part of their ancestral homeland.
  — Bill Bowden, arkansasonline.com, 16 Nov. 2023
• But the themes of persecution and the need for a Jewish homeland were deeply embedded in me.
  — Jill Gurvey, Twin Cities, 2 May 2024
• Old friends were now living in the city’s districts, after having been forced to leave their homelands.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 Aug. 2024
• Yet in a warming climate, their homelands are in some of the most at-risk environments.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2023
• Back in his homeland of South Korea, Kim’s grandfather was a farmer.
  — Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2023
• Buttery and flaky, the soft sticks come with molten centers of chihuahua cheese, the pleasant saltiness of which compares to the white cheese used in the chefs’ homeland, says Useche.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
• But that criticism might not be the case in his adopted homeland, Lipscomb said.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2023
• While the Dominican Republic is my homeland, home, for me, is the United States.
  — Jacqueline Delgadillo, refinery29.com, 15 Sep. 2022
• Dosewell immigrated from Thailand to the U.S. in the late ‘80s, after having worked in sewing shops in her homeland.
  — Erika Ramirez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• The residents cook dishes from their homeland to share with their housemates.
  — Janelle Davis, CNN, 26 Mar. 2023
• Calling on the strength of his ancestors, a young Mi’kmaq man reflects on the pain of bearing witness to the destruction of his homelands.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 12 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024