How to Use confederacy in a Sentence

confederacy

noun
  • The state also replaced its flag, which had confederacy ties, with a new one.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 4 Nov. 2020
  • The gowns were always gorgeous and that face was always beat like the confederacy.
    — Billboard, 11 July 2018
  • But to love the Confederacy is to side with murderers, rapists, child abusers and thieves.
    — Virgie Townsend, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Over the past few years, symbols of the Confederacy have been removed from public places.
    — Alexandria Bordas, miamiherald, 21 June 2017
  • Speakers said the spot was once the temple of the confederacy and became holy ground of the civil rights movement.
    — Kim Chandler, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2026
  • And not everybody in the South was in favor of the confederacy.
    — Lily Rothman, Time, 19 Mar. 2018
  • The confederacy is believed to be the longest-living democracy in the world.
    — Wayne Lawrence, National Geographic, 23 Nov. 2020
  • The Confederacy will and should remain an enduring subject of study and teaching.
    — David Blight, The Atlantic, 29 May 2017
  • 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
  • If this were 1860, this time, Indiana would join the confederacy.
    — Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Forrest was a general in the confederacy, a slave owner and a leader in the Ku Klux Klan.
    — NBC News, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity.
    — Jack Holmes, Esquire, 23 May 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • However, a pro-Union group headed toward Arizona to stop this forward movement of the confederacy.
    — Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 23 Mar. 2026
  • This phenomenon is the most pronounced within the former borders of the Confederacy.
    — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2016
  • Other cities also are grappling with what to do about monuments and statues honoring the Confederacy and its soldiers and leaders.
    — Max Londberg, kansascity, 18 May 2017
  • The clouds are as much a character in Murphy’s work as the cowboys, though the former are unchanged since the Oceti Sakowin first formed their confederacy.
    — Casey Cep, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The number of slave owners fighting for the Confederacy was kept artificially low by a law that exempted those who owned lots of human beings.
    — Jarvis Deberry, NOLA.com, 31 May 2017
  • Meanwhile, Amy’s confederacy of dunces are given pedometers and offered seven days of overtime for the ones who actually walk the beat.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The most recent Congress boasted 138 members from the states that comprised the old Confederacy.
    — Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2016
  • 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
  • Of course, the former Klansman does not speak for everyone who would defend a monument to a Confederacy that once defended slavery.
    — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 6 May 2017
  • 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
  • His mother, Rosalind, was a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
    — Dave Revsine, Esquire, 6 Aug. 2014
  • 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 of tribes was pressured into ceding lands to the state of New York, and further displaced by ensuing frontier settlement.
    — Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Instead, Cortés wandered into a collection of city states, three of them joined in a powerful confederacy, the Triple Alliance.
    — Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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

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