Example sentences for: republic

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

  • Following the example of the former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who insisted during the final Bonn session that the re-establishment of Berlin as the country's capital doesn't mean that "we are turning our backs on the values and basic principles of our constitutional order," the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said in a front-page comment that "the Germans and their politicians don't want any other republic than the one they've got; they want ...

  • In 1948, the Irish republic severed its last ties to Britain.

  • In the New Republic , James Wood says, "Each new book by him is worse than the last; he has become a bibliographer's definition of nostalgia.

  • Washington Square is said to compare favorably with last winter's revisionist Portrait of a Lady , since it "respects James' complexities and bitter ironies" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Critics also praise its "brusque, energetic pace" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) and Leigh's "heartbreakingly good" performance ( People ). The New Republic 's Stanley Kauffmann dissents, calling the film "ill at ease, uncomfortable, straining for effect."

  • In an essay on the state of realism today, the New Republic 's Jed Perl pans the Chuck Close retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art as "the work of an artist who has no sensibility and is proud of it."


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