How to Use patriot in a Sentence

patriot

noun
  • He was a great patriot who devoted his life to serving his country.
  • Above all, Twain was a patriot in the best sense of the word.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The Left that has spent the last four years taking a knee against the flag of the United States cannot play patriot now.
    — Star Tribune, 8 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Vic was a proud patriot and served our country in the United States Air Force.
    — courant.com, 19 June 2021
  • Vic was a proud patriot and served our country in the United States Air Force.
    — courant.com, 6 Aug. 2021
  • There is a lot in the game that Russian patriots might take issue with.
    — Matthew Bodner, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The tens of thousands of patriots here today have come for the fast cars and the world-class motorsports.
    — CBS News, 16 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Watkins was moved from the patriot wing to a women’s unit in the District of Columbia jail at her own request.
    — Andrea Bernstein, The New Yorker, 6 June 2022
  • Congressman Al Green is 10 times the patriot as any Republican in this room.
    — Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Corey was taken from us much too soon, but his destiny was to leave us all with a shining example of the selfless devotion of a true American patriot.
    — CBS News, 5 Mar. 2025

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