CONFEDERATE in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for CONFEDERATE, such as:

1. They were admitted by a confederate inside the house.
2. They went a long way, on purpose to find a man who would not be a confederate.
3. 'Bear a hand with the boy,' cried Sikes, beckoning furiously to his confederate.
4. She somehow felt like a confederate in crime, and tried to look severe and disapproving.
5. Her grandfather was at home tonight, and she would be unable to ask her confederate indoors.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONFEDERATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
confederate
 n.  ally; form a group or unite
Classic Sentence:
1  'Bear a hand with the boy,' cried Sikes, beckoning furiously to his confederate.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
2  Her grandfather was at home tonight, and she would be unable to ask her confederate indoors.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
3  They were admitted by a confederate inside the house.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
4  Having finished their work they made off, and the door was barred behind them by their confederate.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
5  He may have stolen it from Pietro, he may have been Pietro's confederate, he may have been the go-between of Pietro and his sister.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
6  She somehow felt like a confederate in crime, and tried to look severe and disapproving.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XX
7  They went a long way, on purpose to find a man who would not be a confederate.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
8  From this came the first taint of ill; from this did Ulysses ever threaten me with fresh charges, from this flung dark sayings among the crowd and sought confederate arms.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
9  They sweep down the city buried in drunken sleep; the watchmen are cut down, and at the open gates they welcome all their comrades, and unite their confederate bands.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
10  The interval had not entirely been bestowed in holding council with his confederates, for De Bracy had found leisure to decorate his person with all the foppery of the times.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  "I must be clerk, then," said the Black Knight; and taking the letter from Locksley, he first read it over to himself, and then explained the meaning in Saxon to his confederates.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
12  In this deplorable condition the Jew, with his daughter and her wounded patient, were found by Cedric, as has already been noticed, and soon afterwards fell into the power of De Bracy and his confederates.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  More than once he halted to consult with his confederates, the Mohicans, pointing upward at the moon, and examining the barks of the trees with care.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
Example Sentence:
1  President Davis was captured at Irwinville, Georgia, on May 10, and the remaining confederate armies surrendered by June 1865.
2  There he was dogged by his confederate, who held Beppo responsible for the loss of the pearl, and he stabbed him in the scuffle.