How to Use antebellum in a Sentence

antebellum

adjective
Definition of antebellumnext
  • Shakespeare’s tragedies, which were all the rage on both sides of the Atlantic in the antebellum era.
    — Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The club has made strides away from its antebellum past.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Since its inception in 1934, the Masters has dripped in the antebellum codes of the South.
    — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2021
  • His views felt like something out of the antebellum South.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 July 2022
  • The antebellum mansions and brick townhouses add a sense of charm that can't be beat.
    — Kara Thompson, Good Housekeeping, 18 Aug. 2022
  • He had been placed into a trust, a common practice in the antebellum South.
    — Ann Banks, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Aug. 2020
  • That's the major problem with the antebellum aesthetic: It was built on the backs of slave labor.
    — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 11 June 2020
  • It is dotted with Civil War sites and antebellum homes that pay homage to its rich history as part of the Old South.
    — Chelsea Sheasley, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The time is well after the Civil War, though, because Ol’ Cap’n is nostalgic for the antebellum way of life.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The biggest racial fear of the antebellum white North was a black migration northward.
    — WSJ, 1 June 2018
  • The name, with connotations of the antebellum South and the shadow of slavery, had been a flashpoint of debate for years.
    — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Dec. 2021
  • And yet part of what makes the genre, created by the enslaved Africans of the antebellum South, so compelling is how despite the circumstances of the singers how full of joy the songs can be.
    — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2023
  • An Empire-style antebellum home was later built on the property and was used as a girls’ high school at one point.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 10 July 2024
  • Tresvant made his way to the grounds of the antebellum Statehouse, a relic still marked by cannon fire from Sherman’s army.
    — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 5 May 2023
  • There is a replica of the White House on the property, as well as a classic antebellum house, a church, a prison yard, courtrooms, a diner, a farm and more.
    — NBC News, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The book follows Dana, a Black 26-year-old writer, from her home in California to the antebellum South.
    — Laura Zornosa, Time, 15 Dec. 2022
  • According to Leonard, a line can be traced to the modern N.B.A. from antebellum slavery.
    — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • When starting to learn Arabic, few students of the language would expect the journey to lead them back to slavery in the antebellum South.
    — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 10 Aug. 2023
  • It should be said that antebellum colleges did not march in lockstep on all these matters.
    — Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022
  • Jarret is the child of Harry Lewis, a horse trainer who was able to buy his own freedom in antebellum Kentucky.
    — Maggie Shipstead, Washington Post, 17 June 2022
  • The bill, which passed both chambers in Albany by wide margins, would have overhauled the state’s wrongful-death statute, an antebellum law that dates to 1847.
    — Jesse McKinley, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Until that inevitable day comes to pass, these two bachelors from the antebellum past may be the next closest thing.
    — Thomas Balcerski, Smithsonian, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Wilson, a product of the antebellum South, carried the racial attitudes of his region and class into the White House.
    — Jerald Podair, The Conversation, 21 Dec. 2022
  • In the period only later dubbed the antebellum era, white Southerners weren’t aching to leave the Union.
    — Richard Kreitner, The New Republic, 30 June 2020
  • In the antebellum South, biscuits were seen as a special treat for Sunday dinner.
    — Jen Rose Smith, CNN, 4 May 2022
  • At her big age, Rachael absolutely knew that an antebellum era themed-party that had been banned by the school and had to be held off campus was a bad idea.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Black men had access to education and voting rights that were scarce in the East and unthinkable in the antebellum South.
    — Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2022
  • At first glance, an antebellum vice-president and supporter of slavery has few lessons for the EU.
    — The Economist, 17 Apr. 2021
  • James conjures a vision of the antebellum South as a scene of pervasive terror.
    — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The costumes by Holly Pierson are a triumph, and include a cheap rental top hat and flimsy antebellum hoop skirts.
    — Christian Lewis, Variety, 12 July 2024

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