Example sentences for: juneteenth

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

  • The New Yorker excerpts Ralph Ellison's posthumous novel Juneteenth , the story of a boy of mixed race who denies his black heritage and becomes a racist senator.

  • The griping about Juneteenth even before publication makes it clear that Callahan has taken the side of readers.

  • If Invisible Man was Louis Armstrong, Juneteenth is Charlie Parker.

  • Mellow, a National Book Award winner, died before completing this long biography of the photographer and writer--making it this summer's third example (after Ernest Hemingway's True at First Light and Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth ) of an unfinished work by a deceased author published before proper completion.

  • In an afterword, Callahan says that he took most of Juneteenth from Book II, the strongest and most heavily plotted part of what were apparently intended to be three parts.


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