Example sentences for: roosevelt

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

  • For 62 years the Secret Service ably sheltered the president from danger, despite assassination attempts on Franklin Roosevelt (as president-elect, in 1933) and Harry Truman (in 1950).

  • In a recent column lauding Bush, Will recalls the contest between three book-writers for president in 1912--Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and William Howard Taft--noting that "such intellect in politics is rare, and perhaps should be."

  • Franklin Roosevelt reworked the federal government to aid the poor, improve education and create a less crash-prone financial system."

  • Some other things I'd like to touch on this week: Did the bifurcated Roosevelt White House do a disservice in providing a model for later administrations, in which poor folks and children and the lame and the halt were insidiously sentimentalized as women's work?

  • Doris Kearns Goodwin ( This Week ) cited Theodore Roosevelt's conservation campaign and Lyndon B. Johnson's war on poverty during a time of prosperity as examples of how a leader can mobilize the people with a public challenge.


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