Example sentences for: jacobite

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

  • The prince, known as Bonnie Prince Charlie (the grandson of James VII), raised an army of Jacobite highlanders and swept through Scotland.

  • The final showdown — at Culloden in 1746 — saw the Jacobite army slaughtered.

  • The Jacobite uprisings found little support in such lowland cities as Edinburgh.

  • Another campaign was held in 1715 under the Jacobite Earl of Mar, but it was the 1745 rising of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the “Young Pretender,” which became the stuff of legend.


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