Example sentences for: statesmen

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

  • Many of the statesmen in history to whom actors ascribe smart southern accents were in fact proudly northern.

  • Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms--the villainous, superannuated Carolinians--became Statesmen.

  • This resulted in the emergence of a new class of so-called “statesmen” or yeomen farmers, who came to comprise a new middle class.

  • President Bill Clinton and [Russian] Prime Minister Vladimir Putin play the role of the world's grave statesmen, and their governments sacrifice civilians to the greater good.

  • In an editorial Thursday, the Times of London decried the chaos afflicting international diplomacy over Kosovo, "with meetings scheduled and cancelled within hours, statements issued and promptly retracted, statesmen announcing their arrival in capitals unprepared to greet them, and leaders trying to keep telephone track of the Balkan imbroglio while locked into campaigns and duties thousands of miles away."


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