Example sentences for: northerners

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • If blacks and whites, Northerners and Southerners, eventually men and women, could respect each other as Americans participating in the same national drama, they would lay a foundation for affirming their mutual equality.


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