How to Use Whig in a Sentence

Whig

noun

• After the caustic irony of the Whigs, the sincerity is jarring.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
• King was elected to the state's second constitutional convention as a Whig.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2022
• The radical Whig revolution failed in London, derailed by the backlash to the French Revolution.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• The pragmatic Whig politician Abraham Lincoln learned from the abolitionists’ mistake.
  — Jack Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 21 July 2022
• Webb’s newspaper catered to his (mostly) Whig subscribers, and its pages were filled with biased partisan commentary and correspondence submitted by his Whig friends.
  — Michael J. Socolow, The Conversation, 7 Dec. 2020
• Politically, these tensions split and ultimately destroyed the old Whig Party, in which Lincoln had spent most of his political career, inspiring anti-immigration nativists to form a political organization of their own.
  — Harold Holzer, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Aug 2024