Example sentences for: northerners

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The Civil War arose because Northerners feared that a small Southern "Slave Power" had seized control of Washington, while Southerners were convinced the North was determined to destroy their way of life.

  • 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.

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


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