Example sentences for: whigs

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

  • In the antebellum era, New England-based Conscience Whigs denounced the North's pro-South Cotton Whigs as corrupt.

  • Rebuffing these lower classes when they could have beguiled them, the Whigs made potential friends into enemies.

  • The tories form a party which are [sic] charged with supporting more arbitrary principles in government than the Whigs, their opponents.

  • The progressives, like their predecessors among the Mugwumps--the independent-minded Republicans who spurned their party's presidential candidate in 1884--and Liberal Republicans and Whigs and Federalists, have long favored fiscal conservatism.

  • Johnson's terse and narrow definition reveals his Tory opposition to the Whigs, who normally were the government.


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