Example sentences for: reparations

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

  • McLaren maintains that because Texas was illegally annexed, Texans are not U.S. citizens, have no obligation to obey federal laws, and are owed war reparations by the federal government.

  • Switzerland has recently offered words of conciliation and established a reparations fund, but many Jews feel it has yet to make full amends for its role as banker to the Nazi party.

  • It was the repository for gold coins paid by the French as reparations after the Franco-Prussian War, and returned as part payment for reparations following World War I. The Heimatmuseum (Local History Museum) in the Zitadelle contains an exhibition of Jewish gravestones, found during excavations here, which date back to the 13th century.

  • The Dutch demanded reparations for this act; the southern rajas refused.

  • Ron Walters, a professor at the University of Maryland and one of America's best-known black political scientists, has called Social Security "a form of 'reverse reparations.


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