How to Use confederacy in a Sentence

confederacy

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  • But to love the Confederacy is to side with murderers, rapists, child abusers and thieves.
    — Virgie Townsend, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Aug. 2017
  • And not everybody in the South was in favor of the confederacy.
    — Lily Rothman, Time, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The Great Law formed the foundation of a confederacy stable enough to endure for centuries (to the present day, in fact).
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2022
  • At the close of the Civil War, more than Southern independence and the bones of the dead lay amid the smoking ruins of the Confederacy.
    — Fergus M. Bordewich, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2016
  • The gowns were always gorgeous and that face was always beat like the confederacy.
    — Billboard, 11 July 2018
  • Over the past few years, symbols of the Confederacy have been removed from public places.
    — Alexandria Bordas, miamiherald, 21 June 2017
  • The state also replaced its flag, which had confederacy ties, with a new one.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Forrest was a general in the confederacy, a slave owner and a leader in the Ku Klux Klan.
    — NBC News, 18 Apr. 2018
  • That help doesn’t come; Newton leads his group in declaring independence from both the Confederacy and the Union (the film’s title comes from the name of their new country).
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 June 2016
  • The confederacy is believed to be the longest-living democracy in the world.
    — Wayne Lawrence, National Geographic, 23 Nov. 2020
  • The event marked not just the defeat of the Confederacy, but also the liberation of a large segment of the city's black population.
    — Kevin M. Levin, Smithsonian, 18 May 2017
  • Texas and Oklahoma are joining the SEC in 2024, and the confederacy of cowboys are disrupting the balance of a league that’s already the toughest in the country.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 6 Mar. 2023
  • If this were 1860, this time, Indiana would join the confederacy.
    — Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The most recent Congress boasted 138 members from the states that comprised the old Confederacy.
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2016
  • Orange is about 75 miles northwest of Richmond, Virginia, which was the capital of the confederacy and remains the capital of the state.
    — Kate Smith, CBS News, 9 June 2020
  • His mother, Rosalind, was a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
    — Dave Revsine, Esquire, 6 Aug. 2014
  • St. Louis may soon join the growing list of cities removing monuments to the Confederacy.
    — Max Londberg, kansascity, 18 May 2017
  • His father, a druggist, was the town's mayor and negotiated with Union troops as the war broke badly for the Confederacy.
    — Mark Jacob, chicagotribune.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • The by-the-book press release for Confederate—a series set in a version of the United States where the confederacy won the right to secede from the Union in the 1800s—kicked up loud and immediate online backlash.
    — Joanna Robinson, vanityfair.com, 26 July 2017
  • The force breached Union defenses at the famous stone wall but could not hold the position and suffered 50 percent casualties, marking the end of the battle and the beginning of the end for the Confederacy.
    — Jon Fobes, cleveland.com, 3 July 2017
  • That leaves the imagery of the Confederacy—the apostates of the American civic faith—as the most accessible wellspring of symbolic power.
    — Matt Ford, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2017
  • On Pahto, the people of the Yakama Nation, a confederacy of 14 tribes and bands, could find plentiful roots, berries, nuts and game, while the annual snowmelt nourished the surrounding land.
    — Chris Aadland, oregonlive, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The Confederacy will and should remain an enduring subject of study and teaching.
    — David Blight, The Atlantic, 29 May 2017
  • After Spencer shared video of his speech — to a handful of like-minded defenders of the Confederacy — the city’s mayor responded online.
    — Robert MacKey, The Intercept, 15 May 2017
  • In 1889, after completing his novel on the history of the Confederacy, Davis took ill and was taken to New Orleans for treatment.
    — Jr Ball, AL.com, 12 May 2017
  • The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 23 May 2017
  • If the New England, Middle, or Southern states had split apart into separate confederacies, civil wars would have broken out over finances, commerce, and, most of all, land.
    — Time, 3 July 2023
  • Once the heart of the confederacy, Virginia is now the land of Indian grocery stores, Korean churches and Diwali festivals.
    — Robert Gebeloff, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2019
  • Once the heart of the confederacy, Virginia is now the land of Indian grocery stores, Korean churches, and Diwali festivals.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2019
  • This phenomenon is the most pronounced within the former borders of the Confederacy.
    — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2016

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