How to Use Sandinista in a Sentence

Sandinista

noun
  • To what extent did Nicaragua fall prey to it during the Sandinista period?
    — Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Sandinista rebels ride a small tank in the main square of Managua, Nicaragua on June 20, 1979.
    — CBS News, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Sandinista leaders were acutely aware of this dynamic in Nicaraguan political culture.
    — Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Although this defeat signified the end of Sandinista rule, the Sandinistas themselves survived, albeit in name only.
    — Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Your scholarship focuses heavily on the actions and beliefs of the Sandinista leadership.
    — Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Instead of building strong political parties with coherent platforms, the country ended up with rival caudillos— Sandinista on the left and anti-Sandinista on the right.
    — Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Sandinista ideology blended Marxism, liberalism, and nationalism, borrowing ideas from both sides of the Iron Curtain.
    — Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Alliance for Global Justice traces its roots back to efforts to raise money in the late 1970s to support socialist Sandinista revolutionaries in Nicaragua.
    — Brianna Bailey, The Frontier, 24 Mar. 2026
  • In 1979, the Sandinista rebellion overthrew dictator Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua.
    — CBS News, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Still, for most of its time in office, President Ronald Reagan’s Administration saw Noriega as a useful partner in its effort to roll back Sandinista power in Nicaragua.
    — Time, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The Sandinista Revolution and the revolutionary upheavals of the 1980s more broadly held symbolic global importance because of the Cold War.
    — Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Although the conflict unleashed unprecedented levels of popular participation, key decisions were still being made at the top of the Sandinista National Liberation Front.
    — Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Or there’s Nicaragua, where backing of the Contra rebels against the Sandinista government in the 1980s contributed to a prolonged civil conflict that devastated the economy, caused tens of thousands of deaths and deepened political polarization.
    — Tim Sullivan, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2026

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