How to Use confederate in a Sentence

confederate

1 of 2 adjective

• The victim reported a large Confederate flag was mounted in the bed of the truck, which may have a dent in the front right bumper.
  — Staff Report, The Aegis, 1 June 2017
• No civilian, black or white, had ever taken a Confederate vessel of this size and turned it over to the Union.
  — Cate Lineberry, Smithsonian, 13 June 2017
• Over two years ago, Richmond was home to more confederate statues than any city in the United States.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2022
• Another man with his face covered by a confederate flag rips a poster to the sound of cheering.
  — Erin Glynn, Cincinnati.com, 15 June 2020
• Billy proves quick on the draw when Sid and his confederate Twigs (Jay Pickett) show up to retrieve the runaway bride.
  — Joe Leydon, Variety, 2 Dec. 2021
• Also, confederate jasmine does not seem to mind a hard pruning back to near the ground, if needed.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 29 June 2019
• The Beguiled is a new take on the 1971 Clint Eastwood drama about a Confederate soldier imprisoned in a girls’ school, told this time from the girls’ point of view.
  — Rebecca Keegan, VanityFair.com, 16 May 2017
• His flag was paid for by the Virginia Flaggers, a group that flies confederate flags along highways across Virginia.
  — Essence.com, 30 Sep. 2017
• In early days, confederate soldiers were the ones who received flowers on their graves in the Southern states.
  — Asia Ewart, refinery29.com, 25 May 2020
• Mississippi had used a flag featuring the confederate battle cross for 126 years and was the last state to do so.
  — April Siese, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2020
• Back home, he is embroiled in the call to remove Confederate statues from public parks and street corners.
  — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 May 2017
• John Henley was Linn’s son-in-law and also a confederate captain.
  — Anna Beahm | [e-mail], al, 7 Aug. 2020
• Texas has the second highest number of confederate monuments of any states in the nation still left standing at 209.
  — Doug Criss and Elizabeth Elkin, CNN, 5 June 2018
• Summers said Thursday after a meeting of the board that oversees the Confederate Relic Room, where the flag is currently stored.
  — Jeffrey Collins, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
• Other lawmakers, most of them Democrats, have called for the plaque’s removal, along with a review of other confederate symbols around the Capitol grounds.
  — Alejandra Matos, Houston Chronicle, 27 Oct. 2017
• Actually, very few vines do well in the shade but one exception is the confederate jasmine.
  — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 30 July 2022
• In 2016, the organization was barred from flying confederate flags in the Fort Worth Stock Show parade in downtown.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2023
• His painting shows Confederate soldiers fighting in the 1864 siege of Atlanta, led by a soldier carrying the battle flag.
  — Don Thompson, The Seattle Times, 2 May 2017
• Students at a Georgia high school are leading a campaign to remove a confederate general name's from their school.
  — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2020
• The statue, which had saluted Confederate soldiers for 120 years, was dismantled and moved to a walking trail at a public park in Brandenburg.
  — Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2017
• Johnson also was quick to support Nascar and his friend and fellow driver, Bubba Wallace, when the sport banned confederate flags at events, a decision that roiled some fans.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2020
• Across the street, a large confederate flag flew from the back of a truck, which Arps said was a clear symbol promoting slavery and the antithesis of Christianity and patriotism.
  — John D'anna, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2020
• Even Confederate generals expressed some qualms about the use of these subterra torpedoes, and briefly banned their use.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2017
• Big brands have been updating the names of their products, banning confederate flags, and unearthing and punishing racist comments.
  — Kristine Gill, Fortune, 31 July 2020
• The basis of the lawsuit is non-compliance with the Readmissions Act, a Civil War-era law that allowed confederate states to rejoin the union on certain conditions.
  — Safia Samee Ali, NBC News, 24 May 2017
• Meant to honor those lost in the Civil War, the southern states originally observed a different day to honor the Confederate soldiers who died.
  — Lauren Matthews, Country Living, 12 May 2017
• Talk of the country’s divides took the men’s thoughts to President Barack Obama and the recent uproar over whether to remove Confederate statues and monuments from public squares.
  — Jack Healy, Jess Bidgood and Alan Blinder, New York Times, 3 July 2017
• At least two men headed toward the Davis vigil site carrying a confederate flag carried sticks and wore visible sidearms.
  — Janell Ross, Washington Post, 7 May 2017
• Others waved confederate flags in masses down the streets as a symbol of collective defiance.
  — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 16 Apr. 2020
• As Klepper strolls around, confederate flags fly and there’s one that features Trump riding a velociraptor while shooting a machine gun.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2021

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confederate

2 of 2 noun

• Melaina may have lost to the girl in the confederate flag bikini, but her friends had her back the whole way.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 24 Feb. 2017
• The film begins at the grand opening of the shop and the unrolling of a confederate flag outside its front door.
  — Elizabeth Montgomery, azcentral, 5 Mar. 2020
• Two of his confederates were sentenced to life in prison.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2018
• But yet most of y’all carry a confederate flag and use the n word in private but yet wonder why ... your adults right.
  — Joe Marusak, charlotteobserver, 29 Sep. 2017
• But a white dude in a confederate flag shirt ain't bothering me.
  — Roy S. Johnson, AL.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• The inscription on the monuments talks about the principles that gave birth to the confederate cause.
  — Paul Gattis, AL.com, 7 June 2017
• However, the judge intends to reopen the case against Ali and his confederates.
  — Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times, 24 Sep. 2018
• Flying the confederate flag bothers me more—as the South attempted to secede from the same Union that the flag represents.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• Summer-blooming confederate rose plants are not a rose at all but a member of the hibiscus genus.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2021
• King Alcohol—a hymn on him, the last mighty confederate against cold, soberness, hunger, sleeplessness, and a special kind of ghosts.
  — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 9 June 2017
• The evening of June 1, demolition teams rolled in to start dismantling the 52-foot confederate monument in Linn Park.
  — Shauna Stuart | [e-mail], al, 10 June 2020
• A few Confederates and veterans from the Spanish-American and both world wars also rest at the cemetery.
  — Phil Gast, CNN, 27 May 2017
• The white supremacist protest emerged in response to the removal of a confederate statue and left activist Heather Heyer dead.
  — Kynala Phillips, Essence, 3 July 2019
• But he was thwarted by none other than legendary slaver and beloved confederate Robert E. Lee and company.
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, kansascity, 21 Mar. 2018
• The man, who identified himself as Joseph Springer of Louisville, was wearing a trucker cap and a black cut-off T-shirt with a confederate flag bandanna sticking out.
  — Thomas Novelly, The Courier-Journal, 30 Aug. 2017
• The President and his confederates have warned of the consequences of impeachment.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 15 Nov. 2019
• Again and again, Assad’s confederates carried out their gruesome work in defiance of the world, save for his allies in Iran, Russia, and southern Lebanon.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2017
• Charles Corbit led a cavalry charge against the confederates.
  — Jean Marbella, baltimoresun.com, 23 June 2017
• Then last week it was disassembled and loaded on flatbeds for the trip to Richmond to take its permanent place near the confederate monuments.
  — CBS News, 11 Dec. 2019
• One theory is that the gunmen mistook Vázquez for a confederate of the dismembered victim.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2020
• If that was not bad enough, two weeks ago in Charlottesville, Virginia a mob lead by avowed white supremacist Richard Spencer marched with torches in the dead of night to protest the removal of confederate statues.
  — Sophia A. Nelson, NBC News, 25 May 2017
• How much time will a chief confederate of the criminal former Cleveland city councilman Ken Johnson serve in prison?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 11 May 2022
• The amount of time that passed before an employee approached and acknowledged the confederate served as the dependent variable.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2014
• Henderson, Russo, and a small group of confederates are trying to make cryo-EM affordable.
  — Eric Hand, Science | AAAS, 23 Jan. 2020
• The confederate always requested salt or pepper to be passed.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2016
• The girl was said to have been dragged half a mile from her school, in broad daylight, kicking and screaming, to an unfinished apartment building half a mile away, where two confederates held her down and laughed as the man assaulted her.
  — David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, 25 June 2019
• Then, last summer, her husband was killed by confederates of Commander Naseer, the militia leader who had attacked her.
  — Rod Nordland, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
• Same goes for making a lascivious dance routine with the confederate flag.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• The confederate had long dark hair arranged in three different hairstyles: one with her hair falling naturally on her shoulders and her back, one with her hair tied in a ponytail, and one with her hair twisted in a bun.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2015
• Even the closest confederate to turn on Trump, his lawyer-fixer Michael Cohen, described the elliptical ways Trump directed him, in private conversations, to engage in illicit conduct.
  — Scott Turow, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023

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