Example sentences for: statesman

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

  • By boycotting the meeting, and thus provoking the resignation of Catholic Deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon, Trimble "achieved the near-impossible" of making Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, "look like a statesman," the Mirror said in an editorial.

  • The Times simply treated him as a thoughtful elder statesman.

  • It's easy to be a statesman when all the options are good.

  • South of the park is an even more impressive monument to the statesman, the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, built in 1931.

  • The yeoman, or statesman, economy thrived for some 300 years, but with the rise in automation brought by the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century, the demand for hand-crafted goods such as cloth plummeted — machine-produced goods were more plentiful and considerably less expensive.


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