Example sentences for: carpetbagger

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

  • New York's easy residency requirements--you only need to be a resident at the time of the election--and its political prominence make it a carpetbagger magnet.

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

  • For all its currency, the carpetbagger charge only carries these days in parochial places and when it plays into other, more potent, liabilities: the naked ambition of Dawkins or Huffington, the Washington-insider image of Brock.

  • An article counsels that Hillary Clinton must overcome the carpetbagger question and press-phobia to win the New York Senate race.

  • Actually, when McCain first ran for the House of Representatives, he was accused of being a carpetbagger.


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