Example sentences for: carpetbagger

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

  • 5). I do have some lingering problems with the carpetbagger issue.

  • An experienced Democratic fund-raiser sounded the lonely note in a New York Times op-ed that star-struck local pols have chickened out of the race in deference to a carpetbagger.

  • Speaking of local issues, the carpetbagger issue rankles me, too, but for different reasons.

  • carpetbagger.com is taken.

  • Testifying before a congressional committee in 1872, Alabama Democrat William M. Lowe explained, "A carpetbagger is generally understood to be a man who comes here for office sake, of an ignorant or bad character, and who seeks to array the negroes against the whites."


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