Example sentences for: darkies

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

  • The niggers and darkies (where again the primarily adjectival word is the less offensive) of slavery became the Negroes and Coloreds of Jim Crow and are the African Americans and blacks of today.

  • Despite the revival of black (or Black , I can never keep them straight), the media are still enjoined from playin Ol' Black Joe and the song containing the line, “That's why Darkies were born”; we should have lost Ol' Man Ribber were it not for the fact that Darkies and people have the name number of syllables.

  • When I was a child in the early 1930's, the song was sung with the words: Darkies all work, etc..

  • I never had any reason to suspect that the original was other then Darkies until I recently acquired a CD of songs from American musical shows which were recorded in England as performed there.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast