Example sentences for: garfield

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

  • He mocks the notion that Kennedy was a good president, likening him to James Garfield.

  • In 1881, James Garfield was the second president to be killed, and during Grover Cleveland's second term--a time of fierce labor unrest--the president finally began using Secret Service agents, informally, for defense.

  • After the Civil War, it is in the inaugurals of Hayes, James Garfield (1881), and Benjamin Harrison (1889) that we find the most explicit and positive discussion of the need to convert into reality the rights and freedom granted to the "freedmen" on paper by the 13 th , 14 th , and 15 th amendments.

  • Garfield's was the strongest among these.

  • There is history here, of all sorts: Kelly Harrell impersonating Charles Guiteau, President Garfield's assassin; the Carolina Tar Heels voicing the lament of shoemakers made redundant by the Industrial Revolution; Charlie Poole singing, "Roosevelt in the White House, he's doing his best; McKinley in the graveyard, he's taking his rest."


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