Example sentences for: boer

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

  • They resented the sending of Canadian troops to South Africa to support the British in the Boer War, and were no more enthusiastic about the Anglo-French alliance in World War I. Bourassa said “The real enemies of French-Canadians are not the Germans but English-Canadian anglicizers, the Ontario intriguers or Irish priests.”

  • During the Boer War he successfully commanded a vastly outnumbered force of 1,250 men during the siege of Mafeking, and he went home a national hero.

  • At the turn of the twentieth century, the Boer War (the struggle between British and Dutch settlers in South Africa) sent shock waves as far as Bermuda.

  • 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.

  • a Moroccan Jew from Casablanca a Rhodesian policeman a Boer farmer from just outside Johannesburg an Egyptian taxi-driver


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