Example sentences for: reparations

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

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

  • U.N. resolutions require that sanctions remain in place until Iraq destroys its capacity for creating chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons . Last December, the United Nations eased up on the sanctions, allowing Iraq to sell $2-billion worth of oil every six months on the condition that the profits go toward food for Iraq's people and war reparations to Kuwait.

  • Thus, an Anglophone might use the word demand when he means ask, reparations when he means repairs, and remark when he means notice, because he is constantly employing demander, réparations , and remarquer when speaking French.

  • Latin Americans of Japanese descent were extradited from their countries by the United States, and interned just as their American brethren were, yet received no reparations.

  • 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.


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