Example sentences for: foner

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

  • That's why, at our house, I read aloud from that holiday classic, Eric Foner's The Story of American Freedom . The kids throw another SimuLog on the fire, and I tell them about the 1950s when, Foner says, the noble ideas of the American Revolution at last evolved from old-fashioned political freedom to the modern freedom to shop in the mall of your choice.

  • Foner quotes David Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission who, in 1952, wrote: "By freedom, I mean essentially freedom to choose to the maximum degree possible.

  • There, in the model kitchen of a suburban ranch house, Vice President Nixon proclaimed the true spirit of America, what Foner sums up as "freedom of choice among colors, styles, and prices."

  • Historian Eric Foner mocks that it is as if "he and Sally were a kind of Romeo and Juliet, star-crossed lovers doomed by an inflexible society."


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