Example sentences for: contras

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

  • A friend of mine in N.Y. is leading stockholder in a movie production company and sent one of the principals to me to help package a $2 million budget for a feature film called "Contras."

  • 3/28/86 From: Oliver North To: Fawn Hall Subject: Movie on the Contras

  • If so, the paper should have explained how it squares with past U.S. support for Afghanistan forces against the Soviets and for contras against the Nicaraguan government, or for Israel against various Arab countries, etc.

  • He claimed that there was not "one iota" of evidence that profits from the sale of arms to Iran had been diverted to the Nicaraguan Contras, that his aides hadn't lied to Congress about the affair, and so on.

  • The subject was the newspaper's controversial series of last August, "Dark Alliance," which alleged that the CIA had promoted the sale of crack cocaine to Americans as part of the U.S. government's support of the Nicaraguan Contras in the 1980s.


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