Example sentences for: confederate

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

  • There ought to be room in the retelling of it for the letters Mark Twain and Frederick Douglass exchanged, for the similarities between Invisible Man and Ben Franklin's Autobiography , for the presence of Charles Chesnutt at the banquet to honor Twain shortly before the latter's death, and for the monument in Mississippi to the slaves who rode with a band of Confederate irregulars.

  • John McCain committed a classic one of these on Sunday, when he said on Face the Nation that the Confederate flag is "a symbol of racism and slavery" and that it "is offensive in many, many ways, as we all know."

  • But he knew Barnes had tried to do something about the Confederate symbol on the Georgia flag.

  • The hard-core ones spin their own clothes, subsist on hardtack and salt pork, speak in 19 th -century dialect, and starve themselves in order to attain the gaunt look of Confederate troops.

  • On LE , Bush repeats his mantra that the feds should let South Carolina decide whether it wants to fly the Confederate flag over its Capitol building; when interviewer Wolf Blitzer asks him what he feels about the flag personally, Bush talks about education policy.


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