Example sentences for: contras

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

  • Of course, that is only the beginning of the story--and by the time you've pieced this much together, the plot has deepened to involve Treat Morrison, United States ambassador-at-large, and American policy toward the Nicaraguan contras.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Robert Parry, co-author of a 1985 AP news story that first reported that some groups of Contras had engaged in drug trafficking, is now the editor of an online news magazine, the Consortium, and has been promoting the story.


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