Example sentences for: redskins

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

  • Contrary to the views of sentimentalists, a people long conditioned to satirical, hard-edged personal names like Stumbling Bear , who have suffered for five centuries the misnomer Indians and who once merrily referred to whites as Long Noses and Palefaces , are hardly likely to be mortified by Redskinsor devastated by Braves . Although currently considered the most glaring of all Indian team names, Redskins actually predates its New World usage by some twenty-five centuries or so.

  • Power Washington is miffed that Snyder doesn't think it is important, but D.C. folks still crave an invitation to sit in his Redskins owner's box.

  • Daniel Snyder, another new money tyro, just bought the city's most precious institution, the Washington Redskins.

  • One wonderful line quoted by the Post and the NYT is his lead from a 1960 column, when Povich was campaigning hard to have the Washington football team break the color line: "Jim Brown, born ineligible to play for the Redskins, integrated their end zone three times yesterday."

  • The Washington Redskins capture the top third of the Washington Post front but not a berth in the NFC championship game.


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