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Example sentences for "partisan"

Lexicographically close words:
parting; partings; partio; partir; partis; partisans; partisanship; partit; partition; partitioned
  1. Burnet's partisan libels and denunciation of Dryden can be dismissed as impertinent and groundless.

  2. This acrid attack upon the great laureate is ungenerous to a degree, and Mrs. Behn's jibes are the more surprising, inasmuch as she had always been Tory to the backbone and a particular partisan of King James II.

  3. Cavil, jealousy and partisan intrigue, in which he and the cause finally went down together, had not yet done their work.

  4. The people felt the imminence of the danger; and here, as in all matters of deep import, they placed the conservation of the cause high above partisan prejudices, or jealousies of cliques.

  5. Morgan began to make his name known as a partisan chief; and no more thrilling and romantic pages show in the history of the times, than those retailing how he harassed and hurt the Federals while in Nashville.

  6. He has only to choose as elector a known partisan of the candidate he prefers, or some one who will pledge himself to vote for that candidate.

  7. In any even, he was not a partisan for hasty decentralization.

  8. Robert spoke in good French and the partisan stared in astonishment.

  9. Langlade looked at him searchingly, and then the face of the partisan kindled.

  10. He justifies the writing of this work on the grounds that "the partisan spirit, partial to one race or other, permeates most of the writings on this subject.

  11. This intelligence seemed suddenly to awaken the British partisan from a dream.

  12. Mildred and Henry were inseparable; and, in proportion as his sister's zeal and attachment to the cause of independence became more active, did Henry's inclination to become a partisan grow apace.

  13. He was sent with despatches to Colonel Williams, a Whig partisan of note, who was now supposed to be in the neighborhood of the Saluda.

  14. The spot at which they had arrived was the camp of a partisan corps under the command of Colonel Innis.

  15. The alert partisan had fallen upon the track of the freebooters who had been marauding on the confines of North Carolina, and whose incursion had expelled our travellers from Wingate's cabin.

  16. The complete partisan spirit in which Home Rule has been treated is the more to be deplored as the subject is one which does not lend itself readily to the trivialities of party debates.

  17. The partisan of grace holds that works are of no avail compared with the gratuitous and unmerited illumination from above.

  18. The partisan of expression becomes the thrall of his impressions so that the whole Rousseauistic conception may be termed indifferently impressionistic or expressionistic.

  19. Don't you believe that such a course upon his part would unify public partisan sentiment, and give a decisive and fatal blow to all opposition to the re-establishment of peace in the country?

  20. His party was routed, and upon the death of Mr. Lincoln was opened the new Iliad of partisan conflict and reconstruction woes.

  21. In a conversation with Lamon about his personal safety Lincoln said, "I have more reason today to apprehend danger to myself personally from my own partisan friends than I have from all other sources put together.

  22. The partisan had managed admirably, but he was now compelled to fly.

  23. During the Revolution, General Francis Marion was in command of a body of partisan soldiers known by the above title.

  24. Thus speaking, guiding and encouraging the boy, the fearless partisan kept on.

  25. He was a strong partisan in his time, and tenacious of his opinions.

  26. They were military factions, whose ambitious leaders seem to have been always willing to sacrifice the interests of the country at large to secure a partisan advantage.

  27. The rebels kept the field in formidable numbers, and among their able partisan chiefs was Giuseppe Garibaldi, who here took part in his first war for freedom.

  28. The Uruguayan gauchos retaliated, and for nearly a century continuous partisan warfare went on, for these half-savage cattle-herders recked little of treaties or boundary lines.

  29. The movement had been rather a partisan uprising than a general popular revolution.

  30. The Rio Grande federalists kept up a partisan warfare for a few months longer, but by 1895 they were completely stamped out.

  31. We Americans are so much under the influence of partisan prejudices, so surrounded with the complications of present and past political issues, that for us a dispassionate study of this point is almost, or quite, impossible.

  32. As it is, the record of his life, the influence of his character seem to borrow new brightness from the evidences of partisan calumny found in the more casual records of the past.

  33. In all political and literary history there are few more benign and distinguished examples of the practical efficiency of intelligent, patriotic, and conscientious reasoning against ignorance, prejudice, and partisan misrepresentation.

  34. That you deliver these letters to their several addresses; that you do so with your own hands; that when questioned, as you may be, on the state of France, you will not answer as the partisan of the Usurper.

  35. The last word was accented deeply, and with an emphasis meant to show that he who used it proclaimed himself no partisan of republican principles, but one who held to the ancient habits of the monarchy.

  36. Partisan companies sprung into existence all over the South, but in less than twelve months after the war began there was not one of them in the service.

  37. He is a partisan in the truest sense of the word," was Mr. Westall's answer.

  38. A Partisan Ranger," repeated Rodney, who was neither embarrassed nor angered by the covert sneer contained in the general's words.

  39. This was partisan warfare, and Rodney wanted to be a partisan.

  40. It's neighbor against neighbor all through the southern and western parts of Missouri, and for a week or two past there has been the worst kind of a partisan warfare going on.

  41. He did not say a great deal during the meeting, but when he went home that night he remarked to his father: "This partisan business is a humbug so far as this State is concerned.

  42. But are you a partisan and is Dick Graham one, also?

  43. Is that the sort of partisan you are, Tom?

  44. If that was the way a partisan was expected to act, Rodney wished he had not been so determined to become a partisan.

  45. Not to dwell too long upon matters that have little bearing upon our story, it will be enough to say that Rodney was duly presented to Captain Jones, who was informed that he had come all the way from Louisiana to join a partisan company.

  46. Marshal Möllendorf, the commander whom Frederick William substituted for the weary and disgusted Duke of Brunswick, proved to be a partisan of peace.

  47. As it finds no place in the Pitt-Grenville letters until 7th July, we may infer that Pitt and Dundas accepted Windham with some reluctance as an ardent partisan of Burke and the émigrés.

  48. But in the last years of his life the denuding influences of partisan and personal feuds disastrously thinned his following.

  49. At such a crisis the true statesman merges the partisan in the patriot and says not a word to weaken his own Government and hearten its opponents.

  50. To this height of self-denial Fox rarely rose; and the judgement alike of his fellows and of posterity has pronounced this speech a masterpiece of partisan invective and of political fatuity.

  51. Being afterward summoned by Lord Rawdon to join the British army, he considered the pledge annulled, and raised a partisan band.

  52. Tell something of the famous partisan warfare of those times.

  53. Footnote: As a President, Van Buren was the subject of much partisan censure.

  54. Cornwallis, refusing to follow Greene into South Carolina, had already gone north into Virginia, and though a fierce partisan warfare still distracted the country, this engagement closed the long and fiercely fought contest at the South.

  55. The cruel treatment which the whigs received from the British drove many to this partisan warfare.

  56. Having rested his men, Greene again took the field, harassing the enemy by a fierce partisan warfare.

  57. These partisan corps kept the country in continual terror.

  58. To write a National history by carefully avoiding all sectional or partisan views.

  59. These amendments were not partisan in their origin, and are not so in character, and should not be made so in voting upon them.

  60. After some positive discussion a non-partisan vote of 27 to 24 defeated the motion.

  61. What would the Landamman say," he demanded, "if he saw thee thus quietly yield up post and partisan to a stranger?

  62. The candidate for election in those days might be guilty of heinous crimes, yet the party covered them all, and over that covering the partisan newspaper spread every virtue in the calendar.

  63. If curiosity should induce a perusal of some partisan paper of the other party, the same thing could be read in its columns, with a change of names.

  64. A vast number of people were ignorant enough to cling blindly to one party and to believe every word published by its partisan papers.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "partisan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abettor; acquaintance; adherent; admirer; advocate; aggressive; angel; apologist; appendage; attendant; backer; bellicose; belligerent; biased; bickering; bipartisan; brother; buff; bushwhacker; casual; champion; chauvinistic; cohort; colored; combative; confidant; courtier; defender; dependence; dependent; disciple; disputatious; divisive; doctrinaire; dogmatic; endorser; enthusiast; exponent; factious; familiar; fan; fellow; fellowman; flunky; follower; following; guerrilla; heeler; henchman; illiberal; interested; intimate; involved; irregular; irritable; jaundiced; litigious; lover; loyalist; mainstay; neighbor; opinionated; parasite; partial; partisan; party; patron; pickup; polarizing; polemical; political; prejudiced; prepossessed; promoter; proponent; protagonist; public; pugnacious; pursuer; quarrelsome; regular; reliance; repository; resistance; satellite; second; seconder; sectarian; sectary; sectional; shadow; shrewish; soldier; spear; sponsor; stalwart; standby; successor; support; supporter; sustainer; swayed; sympathizer; tail; twisted; underground; upholder; votary; warped; wrangling; zealot