Example sentences for: dinkins

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

  • Crime, and a broad sense of civic disorder, probably had more to do with Dinkins' defeat than spending did.

  • Dinkins was New York's first black mayor, and his election had been heralded, by Messinger among others, as the dawn of the Rainbow Coalition.

  • And you were right, Dinkins and Lee Brown (his police commissioner) did substantially increase the number of police.

  • In fact, most people who give Giuliani all the credit for New York's declining crime rate don't know that crime started to drop during the last two years of the Dinkins administration.

  • Dinkins did nothing to reverse the trend, and in 1993, four prominent Democrats, including Koch and Robert Wagner Jr. (son of the former mayor), abandoned Dinkins in favor of Giuliani.


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