Sentence examples for distant homelands from inspiring English sources

They were uprooted from their homes and banished from white areas, but were not sent to distant homelands, like the so-called bantustans created for black people under apartheid.

They played Trivial Pursuit (Genius IV version) and discussed their distant homelands as they whiled away the hours in the mythical heart of Broadway, which reeked like liver in the sun.

If these workers are then returning home to their distant homelands (in and around South Africa), without the appropriate access to health care, the struggle against TB becomes almost insurmountable – thus making the control of silica dust in our mines a broader public health issue, and not just one for the mining industry.

Sunday lunchtime can be the loneliest time of the week for the exiled traveller, yearning for the comfort food of their distant homeland.

An outsider chancing upon this gathering would almost certainly assume that here was a band of expatriates, come together to share fond memories of a distant homeland.

It is shot through with the sense of longing and romance common to the way that people of a diaspora envision their distant homeland.

There he was reunited with Emily and the two of them set off together to a new life in her distant homeland on the other side of the world.

It would be a fascinating experiment should the New Yorker establish a no-pay page for the exclusive use of soldier poets & others trying to get in touch with the human heart in a distant homeland.

Mr. Fishman cautioned that it was too early to draw any firm conclusions about the Tsarnaev brothers, but said there were intriguing echoes of other cases in which young men caught between life in America and loyalty to fellow Muslims in a distant homeland turned to violence, partly as a way of settling the puzzle of their identity.

For example, in the eastern half of the island of Tasmania, English settlers tried, with varying success, to replicate the hedges and fields of their distant homeland, to the extent of importing hawthorn and elm trees as well as wheat and sheep.

The conflict is distant; prosperous homeland America looks the same as ever.