Example sentences for: jefferson

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

  • John Patrick Diggins is living in a world of phantoms when he uses the myth of Lincoln as a hammer to smash the myth of Thomas Jefferson's record on individual liberty and civil rights in "Nothing to Declare," his review of Pauline Maier's American Scripture .

  • Tradition, for that matter, coexisted with experimentation, so that it is not always immediately obvious which is which--you might not realize from listening that Blind Lemon Jefferson was an innovator who transformed the blues and influenced every subsequent artist in the genre, or that the shape-note singing of the Sacred Harp choirs represents a late vestige of a style that may have reached its acme of prevalence around the time of the American Revolution.

  • A three-way with Jefferson Davis?)

  • To call these views racist is fair enough in our day and age, but it hardly takes into account the liberal moderation by which Jefferson would have been judged on these issues in his own time.

  • Lawyer Lamont Jefferson, brother of Texas Supreme Court Justice Wallace B. Jefferson, is Pecina's new attorney.


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