Example sentences for: historic

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

  • The historic policies of the English crown, and later, the British government, turned a crop failure into one of modern history's most tragic episodes.

  • To condemn Jefferson for his failings, you must also condemn Lincoln, but to condemn both is to throw out the progressive historic tradition by which the present civil rights movement gains its legitimacy.

  • What on earth is one supposed to get out of Simon Patterson's The Great Bear , which appropriates the London Underground map (a classic of '30s graphic design incidentally), replacing the tube stops with a seemingly random array of celebrities, historic and current?

  • Vila do Conde: Festa do Corpo de Deus procession in the historic section of town with the streets covered in flowers.

  • Potential presidents--like astronauts, Olympic athletes, and other Americans playing on an international stage--still had to carry a lot of symbolic baggage: They had to appear as forthright champions in a historic contest, disciplined leaders who embodied national values.


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