Example sentences for: confederate

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

  • After stating these obvious truths, McCain spent the next couple of days "clarifying" his position: that the Confederate flag is not a symbol of racism or slavery but rather of "heritage" and that there's nothing offensive about it at all.

  • The grandson of two confederate soldiers, McMillan was on record deriding "the folly ...

  • Several recent reviews buck the critical consensus and deride the book, the story of a Confederate deserter, for being too self-consciously novelistic (James Gardner, National Review ). Like "a literary approximation of an already literary idea of reality," says Slate's James Wood.

  • The LAT and NYT fronts the pomp-filled reinterrment of the remains of 26 Confederate soldiers whose graves were recently found under a sports stadium in Charleston (the WP puts the story inside).

  • All he has to do is call a press conference before he leaves South Carolina and in no uncertain terms denounce the Confederate flag.


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