Example sentences for: mcclellan

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

  • Under the control of the Department of War, its first head was the legendary private detective Allan Pinkerton, a friend of McClellan's who had learned of--and helped avert--an attempt on Lincoln's life in 1861.

  • George B. McClellan conceived of the organization during the Civil War as an espionage agency.

  • The Bush team's answer to this complaint is that the tracking codes aren't a way of keeping score or encouraging competition among donors but rather a benign device for making sure that contributors "are not stepping on each other's toes," according to Bush spokesman Scott McClellan.

  • McClellan gives the example of three of Bush's business-school classmates who are raising money.

  • When Lincoln fired the famously inept McClellan, Pinkerton went, too.


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