How to Use patriot in a Sentence

patriot

noun

• He was a great patriot who devoted his life to serving his country.
• The Boy Scout and patriot had the nation rooting for him.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 7 May 2018
• And there are plenty of younger Patriots ready to step up and keep the program rolling.
  — Jon J. Kerr, chicagotribune.com, 6 May 2017
• Lee is a patriot at heart, and that’s always the most moving thing about his work.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2020
• Vic was a proud patriot and served our country in the United States Air Force.
  — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 11 Aug. 2021
• There is a lot in the game that Russian patriots might take issue with.
  — Matthew Bodner, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2019
• This is the place where the pilgrims landed at Plymouth and where Texas patriots made their last stand at the Alamo.
  — WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
• Simone Biles is a true patriot and one of the greatest gymnasts of our time.
  — Washington Post, 29 July 2021
• Our time has come—the time of upright patriots who fight for their country.
  — Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 26 June 2018
• Never thought about ‘patriot,’ didn't think about any of it.
  — Emmett Jones, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2021
• Sarah Ann wanted to become the Bliss of this season but was just a lone patriot.
  — Charlotte Walsh, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2024
• Now some White Americans hail him as a hero and a patriot.
  — John Blake, CNN, 26 Sep. 2020
• The patriot-traitor divide should be less a matter of opinion than a matter of law, but the law here is murky.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019
• Might some pesky patriot raise a ruckus about such access?
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2024
• When somebody from the radical right shoots a person on the street, Trump calls them a patriot.
  — chicagotribune.com, 2 Sep. 2020
• My father was from the era when Jews were desperate to be patriots.
  — Jay Deitcher, Longreads, 29 Sep. 2019
• Lee’s vision of Hong Kong is a dark one, and Beijing has cast him as the only patriot strong enough to enact it.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 25 May 2022
• Ahead of us, patriots crouched along the buildings and answered the enemy fire.
  — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2019
• But storming a building is not the act of a patriot, and holding someone hostage is not the act of a progressive.
  — Jon Tevlin, Star Tribune, 1 July 2021
• Who but a patriot or a madman would want to be president right now?
  — Amy Wilentz, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
• Or maybe they're supposed to be like patriots and defenders of the United States?
  — Khadrice Rollins, SI.com, 21 Aug. 2019
• Caldwell was the wife of patriot and preacher James Caldwell.
  — Nikolas Lanum, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2023
• John McCain was a man of deep conviction and a patriot of the highest order.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 29 Aug. 2018
• The patriots were the good guys — and good guys wouldn’t set fire to their most important metropolis.
  — Robert G. Kaiser, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
• Jim Mattis is a patriot who has put his life and sacred honor on the line for decades in service to his country.
  — Mackubin Thomas Owens, Washington Examiner, 10 Dec. 2020
• This is not a time for a sunshine patriot or summer soldier.
  — CBS News, 21 July 2024
• This wondrous land has shared its treasures and ideals and shed the blood of its finest patriots to help make another, better world.
  — WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
• For years, he was denounced by the West as a Kremlin henchman and hailed by Russian state media as a patriot.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2023
• No, Europe’s bravest patriots are the Ukrainians — fighting and dying to save their country from annihilation by Putin.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Sep. 2024
• His friends outside the services, who just wanted to live their lives without being bothered by anything else, while fervent patriots, criminals and regime opponents alike perished at the front.
  — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024