Example sentences for: klan

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

  • A third plan was to note that the city of New York refused to grant a permit for an anti-Klan rally because, since it had just banned a Klan rally, there was no need for anyone to express an opinion on the Klan.

  • Wallace ran a harsher campaign in 1962--he did not, for instance, denounce the Klan, as he had in 1958--and won.

  • TRLA generated controversy in 1996, when its attorneys challenged the rights of 800 military personnel to vote in Val Verde County elections by absentee ballot after a former Ku Klux Klan member won a county commissioner post.

  • In the absence of other federal law enforcement agencies--there was no FBI until 1908--the service over time took on new jobs: combating the terrorist acts of the Ku Klux Klan, which had sprung up in the Reconstruction South; conducting espionage during the Spanish-American War and World War I; investigating the Harding administration's Teapot Dome scandal; and helping to apprehend the gangster Al Capone for tax fraud.

  • In the late 1980s, purported connections with the Ku Klux Klan so damaged the reputation of athletic-wear manufacturer Troop (whose name was rumored to be a Ku Klux Klan acronym for "To Rule Over Oppressed People") that it was forced into bankruptcy.


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