Example sentences for: southerners

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

  • Southerners pinned the label on both the opportunistic and idealistic Northerners who packed their worldly possessions into "carpetbags" during Reconstruction and moved to Dixie to enter politics.

  • As the story admits, it's impossible to isolate the source of Bradley's unpopularity: does he really rub Southerners the wrong way, or are they just intensely loyal to Gore?

  • Like the Taliban leadership, most southerners are ethnic Pashtun Sunni Muslims who, though accounting for the majority of the Afghan population, had not fared well in the civil war.

  • That is why this semi-Southerner does not like to think about the Civil War, particularly about the way Southerners fetishize the whole Lost Cause business.

  • Hoe cakes , originally baked on hoe, and hush puppies , allegedly so named because pieces of them were fed to dogs to keep them quite, are variations of what Southerners call corn bread and New Englanders call (spider) johnnycake: spider because it was baked in a spider , a black, cast-iron skillet.


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