Example sentences for: selma

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

  • The basis (with later Caesar writer Selma Diamond) of Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show , Kallen went on to write six novels.

  • Today, most historians believe that the Battle of Agincourt was more fun than Aunt Selma.

  • "Y'all always do the same," says the white mayor of 60 percent black Selma, Ala., at the end of their interview.

  • There were previously unthinkable triumphs: protests at Birmingham and Selma, Ala., that helped topple Jim Crow; a quarter-million Americans gathering in Washington to demand racial equality; black activists and Northern white volunteers registering hordes of black voters; a civil-rights act outlawing racial discrimination, passed despite a three-month Senate filibuster.

  • I think, for example, of 15-year-old June Johnson, who joined Bob Moses and his "troublemakers" (as her mother called them) in an excursion to Selma, only to wind up beaten by authorities in a Winona, Miss.


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