Example sentences for: apartheid

How can you use “apartheid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • After the collapse of the apartheid state-security apparatus, worldwide crime syndicates from Colombia, Nigeria, and Thailand set up operations in South Africa.

  • Cynics cite the opportune timing of coloreds' rediscovered blackness now that the black-majority government has instituted policies helping those who faired worst under apartheid.

  • It also likens American affirmative action to race-classification practices in Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa.

  • In its pages can be found linguistic traces of the former rivalry between Boer and Briton, the naming practices of the Khoi and San (Hottentot and Bushman in former terms), racial conflict (derogatory terms like Boer, Kaffir, and Hottentot each have more than a page devoted to them), the political discourse of the apartheid regime, and the counter-discourse of the resistance movements.

  • “Faculty protest against apartheid at Cornell.”


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