Example sentences for: badge

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

  • The Guardian of London's reporter John Vidal infiltrated one of the closed working party meetings of the WTO because it issued him with the wrong accreditation--a blue delegate's pass instead of a green press badge.

  • The left-wing publishing house Verso has reissued the classic of political philosophy on its 150 th anniversary, marketing the book at chic clothiers as "an accessory, a stocking-stuffer, a badge of consummate capitalist cool" (Barbara Ehrenreich, Salon ). Left-wing reviewers stress the tract's continued relevance as a critique of labor relations, while conservatives redefine Marx and Engels as prophets of capitalism who respected the economy's dynamism and strength.

  • As a final stroke, in a grim foreshadowing of what the future held in store for the Jews, the niddah had to wear special clothing as a badge of her separate and despised status.

  • Crane, in The Red Badge of Courage , wrote in 1895 about the Civil War, but it would not have occurred to him to write in anything but the living language of his own age (which, admittedly, was closer to the earlier period's than Frazier's is).

  • Johnston we learn that fraochdearg was the badge of clan MacDougal; fraoch-geal (white heather) the badge of the MacDonnells; and fraoch gorm the badge worn by clans MacDonald, MacNab, MacIntyre, and MacAlister, which practice could have been rather confusing during periods of clan warfare.


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