Example sentences for: gettysburg

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

  • Generations have pondered Alexander Gardner and Timothy O'Sullivan's justly famous photos of the dead at Gettysburg.

  • 8 There was this much equality in the founding, but anchoring the “peculiar institution” of slavery in the Constitution was the great “offence” against equality that could be expiated only on the killing fields of Gettysburg and Antietam.

  • The foundation of this new order was painted bold in the phrases that resounded at Gettysburg: nationhood, equality, and democracy.

  • The postbellum history of the United States has carried the egalitarian message of Gettysburg into the liberation of ever more marginal groups.

  • A new conception of government might yet emerge to realize the ambitions of Gettysburg, to ensure equality of all those “created equal” as it simultaneously promotes a “new birth of freedom.”


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