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How to use antebellum in a sentence

10 example sentences · adjective

Antebellum means of the time period prior to a war. Example: “A renewed sense of national pride arose in Hitler's antebellum Germany.”

Examples of antebellum by meaning

adjectiveOf the time period prior to a war.

  • A renewed sense of national pride arose in Hitler's antebellum Germany.

adjectiveOf the period prior to the American Civil War, especially in reference to the culture of the southern states.

  • See also: Antebellum South
  • Slavery was an accepted part of antebellum plantation life.
  • Calhoun, a slaveowner and staunch supporter of antebellum plantation slavery, stood.2020 August 31, Dartinia Hull, “‘Not everything is pretty here’: Charleston tourism reckons with slavery and racism”, in CNN

More sentences with antebellum

  • This war we find to be a war of choice, not of necessity, and hence call for its immediate discontinuation and for the restoration of antebellum relations.From the entry war of choice
  • During the antebellum period women's day dresses had semilow décolletage and even lower for evening.2015, José Blanco F., Patricia Kay Hunt-Hurst, Heather Vaughan Lee, Clothing and Fashion: American Fashion from Head to Toe, →ISBN. From the entry semilow
  • Not when you are baiting and switching down from a stately antebellum manse to a tenement crack house.2008, Sarah Bird, How Perfect is That, page 242. From the entry bait and switch
  • Unlike their antebellum predecessors, the new premillennialists were dispensationalists.2000, Vincent Crapanzano, Serving the Word: Literalism in America From the Pulpit to the Bench, →ISBN, →OCLC, archived from the original…. From the entry Church Age
  • The guyascutus was a ferocious, man-eating beast which, after much fanfare and sensational publicity, was exhibited in small antebellum Southern towns.1979, American Humor - Volume 6, page 15. From the entry guyascutus
  • Such refugitive Sounds were created and heard in juke joints and sharecropping fields—and in the fields of antebellum slavery well before white folklorists and record industry scouts “discovered” black culture.2005, Dennis Ray Childs, Formation of Neoslavery. From the entry refugitive

Meaning of antebellum

  1. adjective Of the time period prior to a war.
  2. adjective Of the period prior to the American Civil War, especially in reference to the culture of the southern states.

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Questions about antebellum in a sentence

How do you use antebellum in a sentence?
Antebellum is used as an adjective. For example: “A renewed sense of national pride arose in Hitler's antebellum Germany.”
What is a short sentence with antebellum?
“See also: Antebellum South”
What does antebellum mean?
Antebellum means of the time period prior to a war.

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