War of Secession
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Her environment, explained Dr. Tucker, had been the protected environment of the better class in Virginia during the period shortly after the War of Secession.
From Time Magazine Archive
Reminding the assembled U. S. Laborites that "the fathers of American liberty allowed precious little democratic freedom during the War of Secession," he referred to the ogre-like pictures drawn of Bolshevism in foreign countries.
From Time Magazine Archive
This had its origin in the recognition of a defect in the constitution of the Navy Department, which was glaringly visible during the War of Secession.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
Congress, and the Close of the War of Secession.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 by Various
Petersburg, which awakes so many souvenirs of the War of Secession, is a pretty town scattered with beautiful villas.
From A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things by O'Rell, Max
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
