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Example sentences for "democrat"

  • I was as much as ever a Radical and Democrat for Europe, and especially for England.

  • There are times when a democrat of ancient lineage and good estates could take a very high place amongst the aristocracy.

  • Then I presume you would not be a democrat if, by the death of your cousin, you became heir to the Chillinglys.

  • It is too much for a small-town Hoosier lawyer to stand--and a Democrat to boot.

  • The Ohio governor and attorney-general pronounced that Indiana arrest warrants were without official standing in Ohio (which coincidentally was under a Democrat administration at the time.

  • He was never defeated in any of his races for the Legislature, which spoke well for a Democrat running in a predominantly Republican district.

  • The Republican Majority in the Indiana Senate set about trying to find a hale and hearty Democrat on Hoosier soil who could be legally compelled to resume his seat.

  • Such threats and the clumsy attempts to serve warrants or "kidnap" a Democrat backfired, however, and became targets of public hilarity.

  • Being a Democrat and therefore in disrepute in Indiana these past three years, I had to work through Railroad connections to the Governor's No.

  • At the election in the fall of 1838, the noble-spirited democrat was not wholly forgotten.

  • They saw in the aristocratic popinjay strut of a counterfeit Democrat an itching aspiration to play the slaveholder.

  • It was not long before our democrat was on solid ground once more, and then our rescuers insisted that we go back to the shack with them for the night.

  • Our democrat and ponies were outside the door, but Robert was nowhere to be seen; in fact, we never saw him again.

  • Our ponies did their best, but they could not pull the democrat out of that slough.

  • And while we ate it, those Indians fell to and cleaned all the mud off our democrat for us.

  • Nothing passed, nothing made an interesting rattling, except one democrat wagon.

  • The spring fair was usually a small gathering of farmers to witness races and new agricultural implements, but this time every road for thirty-five miles was dust-fogged with buggies and democrat wagons and small motor-cars.

  • He was a true Democrat and a sincere friend of mine.

  • Men took their politics, as their liquor, "straight"; and this father of mine was an undoubting Democrat of the schools of Jefferson and Jackson.

  • The Journal established by Mr. Prentice, the Courier by Mr. Haldeman and the Democrat by Mr. Harney, had been according to the standards of those days successful newspapers.

  • The Courier had its partisans, the Journal and the Democrat had their friends.

  • By common repute he has been an all-round old-line Democrat of the regulation sort.

  • Kimball, the proprietor, a New Hampshire Democrat of imposing appearance, was one of the last Washingtonians to wear knee breeches and a ruffled shirt.

  • A Southern man and a Confederate soldier, a Democrat by conviction and inheritance, I had been making in Kentucky an uphill fight for the acceptance of the inevitable.

  • I was a young Democrat and of course not in sympathy with Mr. Lincoln or his opinions.

  • The coup de grĂ¢ce was administered by a President of the United States elected as a Democrat when he approved the Federal suffrage amendment to the Constitution.

  • Where must an old-line Democrat go to find himself?

  • The father is the only Democrat we have in that great corporation.

  • Josiah iled up the old double harness and washed the democrat off and rubbed it down with shammy skin till it shone like glass.

  • He never was a Democrat in the French or Italian sense.

  • Perhaps you will make a Democrat of me.

  • It was not strange that he became a professed Democrat in his youth, as we shall see; for how could such a democratic little fellow be other than a true Jeffersonian Democrat?

  • I am such a Democrat as he was, and if he was a Republican, then I am.

  • Come, Charlie, you are as good a Democrat as I am, only you won't own it.

  • Howard, the post-master and a Breckinridge Democrat at the November election the fall before, and John A.

  • With a Democrat elected by the unanimous vote of the Slave States, there could be no pretext for secession for four years.

  • Crum, a colored physician, to a South Carolina vacancy, so that the President could thereby announce at the same time the appointment of a first-grade Southern white Democrat and a first-class colored man.

  • There was nothing of the democrat about him.

  • One was a Democrat and the other a Republican.

  • I had been a red hot Democrat at Gallion, Ohio, and had made a great many hotel-office speeches there, greatly to the satisfaction of the landlord and his friends.

  • I at first hesitated, on account of having been a Democrat while at Gallion, as I feared that the gentleman from there might have heard me arguing at the hotel, and would give me away.

  • At last, however, I came in contact with one landlord who was a Democrat and who made it so very unpleasant for me that I concluded to manufacture a Democratic speech also, in order to be prepared for another such occasion.

  • Madison turned and walked over to where Mr. Higgins, beside the democrat with a handful of chin whiskers, was observing the scene.

  • Wright, a democrat of Memphis, Tennessee, was appointed by President Roosevelt civil governor in Mr. Taft's place.

  • An old mossback Democrat insisted that they have Martin.

  • Dickens had an immense sympathy for the common people, a profound respect for their elemental virtues; and in writing for them he was, as it were, the Jefferson, the triumphant democrat of English letters.

  • Carlyle was in theory an aristocrat and a force-worshiper, Emerson a democrat and a believer in ideals.

  • In later years he wrote much prose also, and being a radical and outspoken democrat he became a thorn in the side of Washington and the Federal party.

  • The original of 'The Exile of Erin' was said to be an obscure democrat named McCann; but it is just as likely to have been that finished actor, Turner himself.


  • The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "democrat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    democratic form; democratic government; democratic institutions; democratic people; democratic society; democratic state