Example sentences for: huac

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

  • Hiss never volunteered to take one, but he pointed out to HUAC that it was "inconceivable" that he, a highly public figure, could have fooled for so long the journalists and statesmen who saw "my every facial expression," "heard the tones in which I spoke," and "knew my every act."

  • But for Kazan to take Miller's stance before HUAC in 1952 would almost certainly have meant a contempt citation and time in jail.

  • Only Hiss, against the advice of his friends, chose to defy Chambers and HUAC, insisting that he had never even met Chambers, much less been a Communist or a Soviet spy.

  • After all, Odets gave HUAC the same names, as did Lewis Leverett, another Group Theater alumnus whom Kazan named.

  • Most of those Chambers and others named initially took the Fifth Amendment before HUAC (though they confessed to the FBI shortly after).


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