Example sentences for: tammany

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

  • He even let Nelson head up a commission on the state constitution, though Tammany leaders warned he would regret it.

  • Tammany Tiger has died and come back as the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the American Irish Teachers Association, the Irish American Foundation, and the Irish-American Caucus--interest groups and old fraternal orders playing new breed-identity politics.

  • The mayor "seen his opportunities and took 'em," as Plunkitt of Tammany Hall would have said.

  • Now that most have made it, the ethnic remnant that once ruled Tammany Hall, Albany, and Boston, and anointed the governors and presidents, has retreated into victimology.

  • Howls of iconoclasm and protests against tainting the official chamber with Tammany Hall vote-buying rang then and ring now.


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