Example sentences for: boer

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

  • Thus de Boer et al.

  • Thousands of Boer prisoners were shipped to the colony, and prison camps were established on half-a-dozen islands in Great Sound.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.


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