How to Use carpetbagger in a Sentence

carpetbagger

noun
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  • Biden, who was raised in Scranton and turns 80 this month, needled Oz as a sort of carpetbagger as Fetterman has throughout the campaign.
    — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Kennedy praised Lamar as a leader in healing the nation after the Civil War, and condemned his foe Ames as a corrupt carpetbagger.
    — T.j. Stiles, Smithsonian, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Westlands Water District often is viewed as a carpetbagger in these parts.
    — Ryan Sabalow and Dale Kasler, sacbee, 7 May 2018
  • That has brought accusations that McCormick is a carpetbagger and a sellout to China.
    — Marc Levy, ajc, 15 Mar. 2022
  • During his first run for mayor in 2015, Bronin was painted as an out-of-town carpetbagger who swooped into Hartford and tried to win the city’s top political office.
    — Christopher Keating, courant.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • But yeah, she, uh, her, her now competitor, long time, Ohio legislator, Emilia psyched of Akron is calling her a carpetbagger.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 3 June 2022
  • Fetterman, still recovering from the effects of a stroke, painted the untested Oz as an elite carpetbagger.
    — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Others felt the abrupt closure cemented his legacy in the Rogue Valley as a right-wing carpetbagger who didn’t much care that his misguided theories killed off the paper.
    — oregonlive, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Republicans are expected to attack Mr. Wallace as a carpetbagger who only moved back to the district last year from Maryland and has not voted there in decades.
    — New York Times, 15 May 2018
  • Even taking a big chunk of money from out of state can make a gubernatorial candidate seem like a carpetbagger.
    — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2022
  • By the time Marty left Boston a little more than a decade later, the outsider had become unusually admired for an eternal carpetbagger.
    — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Doesn’t carpetbagger Scott know by now that a real Floridian doesn’t get hysterical over summer rain and squalls?
    — Fabiola Santiago, miamiherald, 29 May 2018
  • In his legal battles, Avila often was accused of being a carpetbagger, or a judgment chaser.
    — Marcos Breton, sacbee, 18 Mar. 2018
  • But his loyal following has challenged Cox at every turn, dismissing him as a carpetbagger and a secret liberal.
    — Alexei Koseff, sacbee, 6 June 2018
  • Dow is a carpetbagger who only recently claimed residency in the district.
    — Mark Naymik, cleveland.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Greene purchased a home in Rome to counteract criticism during the primary that the former Alpharetta resident was a carpetbagger without real ties to the district.
    — Jeremy Redmon, ajc, 4 Feb. 2021
  • Yet country radio programmers treated her more like a carpetbagger than a forerunner.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Hermit crabs tip over their carpetbagger homes to conceal themselves beneath calcified armor.
    — Clark Fair, Alaska Dispatch News, 8 July 2017
  • Morrisey seems like a replacement-level Republican, to be quite honest, and he was attacked in the GOP primary for being a bit of a carpetbagger and for his family’s links to an opioid manufacturer.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 18 Sep. 2018
  • Ukraine’s allure for American carpetbaggers, political consultants and adventurers has put it at the center of not just one but now two presidential elections in the United States and a host of second-tier scandals.
    — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Both candidates have vulnerabilities -- Oz is ridiculed as a carpetbagger from New Jersey, while Fetterman suffered a stroke earlier in the campaign.
    — Dana Blanton | Fox News, Fox News, 28 July 2022
  • The survey also finds that since July, an increasing number express concern over Fetterman’s health, while a decreasing share worries about Oz’s carpetbagger status.
    — Dana Blanton, Fox News, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Support the elimination of a school's unlimited and unwarranted power to block a transfer from select destinations, and you'll be labeled everything from a snowflake to a Yankee carpetbagger.
    — Kevin Scarbinsky, AL.com, 9 July 2017
  • Despite his lingering health challenges, Fetterman railed against Oz and castigated the former New Jersey resident as an ultrawealthy carpetbagger who will say or do anything to get elected.
    — Marc Levy, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Accusations of being a carpetbagger became a central attack against him, but the Republican easily won the party's nomination and ran a tight race against Shaheen, losing by around 3 percentage points.
    — Dan Merica, CNN, 10 Dec. 2021
  • That’s an important factor in a district where promising Democratic challengers have recently been weakened by accusations of being carpetbaggers.
    — Janet Hook, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Whitney, 45, suggested his opponents were little more than carpetbaggers and stressed his longtime residence in Milwaukee, where his children attend Milwaukee Public Schools.
    — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Boebert, meanwhile, is already painting her potential opponent as a carpetbagger.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has accused her of being a carpetbagger and political opportunist.
    — Gabriel T. Rubin, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The infighting among psychedelic stakeholders and activists only benefits the corporate carpetbaggers.
    — Robert Johnson, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2023

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