Example sentences for: apartheid

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

  • Well before the fall of communism, Congress passed comprehensive sanctions against the apartheid regime 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.

  • 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.

  • For the lexicographer this opened up the possibility of new words (e.g., the last apartheid ruler, P.W. Botha had officially outlawed the regime and white minority rule) and, more important, of new citations.

  • Mandela received a unanimously fond farewell . Former apartheid supporters called him "a saintly man," and a conservative white paper declared that he will be "sorely missed."


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