Example sentences for: yankee

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

  • Could anyone imagine Hemingway... sitting in the grandstand at Yankee Stadium, hot dog (with mustard) in hand, asking, Whom are you rooting for?

  • Something like that happened when a tried-and-true Swamp Yankee pointed to a tree with an abnormally wide-flaring bole, saying, It's a churn-buttered oak.

  • The Yankee's secularized Puritanism combines an enthusiasm for social reform--such as abolitionism, Prohibition, women's suffrage, civil rights, eugenics, and the anti-smoking crusade--with an often-priggish moralism and an apocalyptic horror of "corruption."

  • La Stampa of Turin Wednesday attacked the U.S. military as "Rambos" in a headline and published a front-page column the next day titled (in English) "Yankee Go Home."

  • When I wrote Safire to ask whether he could imagine Hemingway, Faulkner, and O'Hara sitting in the grandstand at Yankee Stadium, hot dogs (with mustard) in hand, asking each other, “Whom are you rooting for?”


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