Example sentences for: separatist

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

  • The white parishioners fled, and blacks retreated to the borderline separatist rhetoric of empowerment and self-reliance.

  • In Catalonia, another Spanish region with separatist ambitions, La Vanguardia of Barcelona decried the president's attack on the PNV, using the Basque term "Euskadi" for the region rather than the Spanish equivalent.

  • In spite of high unemployment and separatist rumblings, the country’s economic growth rate remained one of the highest in all of western Europe throughout the 1980s.

  • Cut off from the political mainstream, some civil-rights leaders and grassroots supporters have embraced separatist politicians and positions.

  • The liberal El País reported that the country's conservative president, José María Aznar, told Congress that Basque separatist political leaders "are closer to the Europe of Kosovo, which represents exclusion and ethnic cleansing, than the Europe of the euro, which represents integration and pluralism."


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