How to Use Whig in a Sentence

Whig

noun
  • Yet a former Whig president emerged as one of Buchanan’s chief rivals in the fall campaign.
    — Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 2024-12-02
  • After the caustic irony of the Whigs, the sincerity is jarring.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 2023-11-10
  • Polk went on to narrowly defeat Henry Clay, the Whig standard-bearer.
    — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 2024-07-24
  • King was elected to the state's second constitutional convention as a Whig.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 2022-11-16
  • Lawrence was believed to be mentally ill, but Jackson voiced his own opinion: that his political opponents from the Whig Party had hired him to do the job.
    — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 2024-07-16
  • The pragmatic Whig politician Abraham Lincoln learned from the abolitionists’ mistake.
    — Jack Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 2022-07-21
  • 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, 2020-12-07
  • The radical Whig revolution failed in London, derailed by the backlash to the French Revolution.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 2022-10-24
  • The Whig party was founded in 1834 principally to oppose Andrew Jackson.
    — Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 2025-04-04
  • Adams appointed Clay secretary of state, and their coalition became the National Republicans, later the Whigs.
    — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 2024-12-01
  • Historians consider the election of 1840 — Democrats versus Whigs — to be the first truly modern presidential election.
    — Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 2024-09-14

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