Example sentences for: northerners

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

  • There was some half-hearted fighting between northerners and southerners for control of the property and lands left by the Spanish missionaries, half of which was meant to be returned to the Native Americans but never was.

  • Northerners were also amused at a Southern matriarch's saying to a tardy arrival at the dinner table, We've waited for you the way one pig waits for another.

  • Southerners pinned the label on both the opportunistic and idealistic Northerners who packed their worldly possessions into "carpetbags" during Reconstruction and moved to Dixie to enter politics.

  • (Delightful, and a bit confounding to we Northerners who can't believe what a sleepy Southern city this still is.)

  • And there was hilarity among Northerners, for instance, when a Southerner asked, Who's carrying you to the dance?


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