Example sentences for: redskins

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

  • 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."

  • (You can hear brief clips of Ginsberg reading from "" and ".") Sports mogul Jack Kent Cooke was remembered as a voracious, colorful rags-to-riches entrepreneur who built two dynasties (the Los Angeles Lakers and Washington Redskins) while living a sumptuous life that included four successive wives, two of them too young to be his daughters.

  • 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.

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

  • Thus the '80s saw "the Fun Bunch" (four Washington Redskins receivers) choreographing a leaping High-Five quartet.


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