Example sentences for: apartheid

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

  • A piece about South Africa reports that many of the country's schools have integrated since the end of apartheid, but that they still harbor white racism.

  • The campaign that overturned American apartheid was a potent form of theater, in which demonstrators embraced the opportunity to be shot, gassed, and thrashed in order to generate outrage against Southern racism.

  • "Had Monty won, Britain would have imposed an indefensible, and unsustainable, version of apartheid," the paper said.

  • 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.

  • Framed by a dystopic post-World War II South Africa--where the economy has moved from rural to urban, Afrikaner nationalists have risen to power, and apartheid is testing its wings--the story airs these larger happenings through the muggy lives of its young protagonist (the book spans years 10 through 13) and his family: his father, a nonpracticing attorney whom he despises; his mother, who is too close to him and to whom he is too close; and a younger brother, who he suspects may, at heart, be normal.


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