Example sentences for: legacies

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

  • But the cutoff point was more flexible for top athletes, for alumni "legacies," and starting in the late '60s, for blacks and other minorities.

  • Both of these phenomena are legacies of Depression-era laws passed when Wall Street was purely an insider's game and individual investors really were at a radical disadvantage in terms of separating truth from lies.

  • The influence of Greece was short-lived, although the olive and the grape, Greek legacies, are cultivated in the region.

  • Yet one of his unfortunate if unintentional legacies was a style of thought--call it vulgar Keynesianism--that confuses and befogs economic debate to this day.

  • Thanks so much to David Plotz for pointing out the true characters and legacies of Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms in "The Old Carolinians."


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