How to Use carpetbagger in a Sentence

carpetbagger

noun

• Biden, who was raised in Scranton and turns 80 this month, needled Oz as a sort of carpetbagger as Fetterman has throughout the campaign.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2022
• Kennedy praised Lamar as a leader in healing the nation after the Civil War, and condemned his foe Ames as a corrupt carpetbagger.
  — T.j. Stiles, Smithsonian, 3 Nov. 2017
• Westlands Water District often is viewed as a carpetbagger in these parts.
  — Ryan Sabalow and Dale Kasler, sacbee, 7 May 2018
• That has brought accusations that McCormick is a carpetbagger and a sellout to China.
  — Marc Levy, ajc, 15 Mar. 2022
• During his first run for mayor in 2015, Bronin was painted as an out-of-town carpetbagger who swooped into Hartford and tried to win the city’s top political office.
  — Christopher Keating, courant.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• But yeah, she, uh, her, her now competitor, long time, Ohio legislator, Emilia psyched of Akron is calling her a carpetbagger.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 3 June 2022
• Fetterman, still recovering from the effects of a stroke, painted the untested Oz as an elite carpetbagger.
  — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• Others felt the abrupt closure cemented his legacy in the Rogue Valley as a right-wing carpetbagger who didn’t much care that his misguided theories killed off the paper.
  — oregonlive, 29 Jan. 2023
• Republicans are expected to attack Mr. Wallace as a carpetbagger who only moved back to the district last year from Maryland and has not voted there in decades.
  — New York Times, 15 May 2018
• Even taking a big chunk of money from out of state can make a gubernatorial candidate seem like a carpetbagger.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2022
• By the time Marty left Boston a little more than a decade later, the outsider had become unusually admired for an eternal carpetbagger.
  — Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2021
• Doesn’t carpetbagger Scott know by now that a real Floridian doesn’t get hysterical over summer rain and squalls?
  — Fabiola Santiago, miamiherald, 29 May 2018
• In his legal battles, Avila often was accused of being a carpetbagger, or a judgment chaser.
  — Marcos Breton, sacbee, 18 Mar. 2018
• But his loyal following has challenged Cox at every turn, dismissing him as a carpetbagger and a secret liberal.
  — Alexei Koseff, sacbee, 6 June 2018
• Dow is a carpetbagger who only recently claimed residency in the district.
  — Mark Naymik, cleveland.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Greene purchased a home in Rome to counteract criticism during the primary that the former Alpharetta resident was a carpetbagger without real ties to the district.
  — Jeremy Redmon, ajc, 4 Feb. 2021
• Yet country radio programmers treated her more like a carpetbagger than a forerunner.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2017
• Hermit crabs tip over their carpetbagger homes to conceal themselves beneath calcified armor.
  — Clark Fair, Alaska Dispatch News, 8 July 2017
• Morrisey seems like a replacement-level Republican, to be quite honest, and he was attacked in the GOP primary for being a bit of a carpetbagger and for his family’s links to an opioid manufacturer.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 18 Sep. 2018
• Ukraine’s allure for American carpetbaggers, political consultants and adventurers has put it at the center of not just one but now two presidential elections in the United States and a host of second-tier scandals.
  — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2019
• Both candidates have vulnerabilities -- Oz is ridiculed as a carpetbagger from New Jersey, while Fetterman suffered a stroke earlier in the campaign.
  — Dana Blanton | Fox News, Fox News, 28 July 2022
• The survey also finds that since July, an increasing number express concern over Fetterman’s health, while a decreasing share worries about Oz’s carpetbagger status.
  — Dana Blanton, Fox News, 28 Sep. 2022
• Support the elimination of a school's unlimited and unwarranted power to block a transfer from select destinations, and you'll be labeled everything from a snowflake to a Yankee carpetbagger.
  — Kevin Scarbinsky, AL.com, 9 July 2017
• Despite his lingering health challenges, Fetterman railed against Oz and castigated the former New Jersey resident as an ultrawealthy carpetbagger who will say or do anything to get elected.
  — Marc Levy, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
• Accusations of being a carpetbagger became a central attack against him, but the Republican easily won the party's nomination and ran a tight race against Shaheen, losing by around 3 percentage points.
  — Dan Merica, CNN, 10 Dec. 2021
• That’s an important factor in a district where promising Democratic challengers have recently been weakened by accusations of being carpetbaggers.
  — Janet Hook, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2018
• Whitney, 45, suggested his opponents were little more than carpetbaggers and stressed his longtime residence in Milwaukee, where his children attend Milwaukee Public Schools.
  — Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2020
• Boebert, meanwhile, is already painting her potential opponent as a carpetbagger.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2021
• The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has accused her of being a carpetbagger and political opportunist.
  — Gabriel T. Rubin, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
• Evangelicals portray Hollywood as an elitist carpetbagger peddling bankrupt morals.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, chicagotribune.com, 24 June 2019

Last Updated: 8 Aug 2024