NEGRO in a Sentence

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For NEGRO, below is one of 171 sentences:
As the artillery rumbled by, splashing mud into the watching crowds, a negro on a mule, riding close to a cannon caught her eye.

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 Meanings and Examples of NEGRO
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
negro
 a.  relating to or characteristic of or being a member of the traditional racial division of mankind having brown to black pigmentation and tightly curled hair
 n.  a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
Classic Sentence: (171 in 12 pages)
1  Brent turned in the saddle and called to the negro groom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  Pork, the only trained house negro on the place, had general supervision over the other servants, but even he had grown slack and careless after several years of exposure to Gerald's happy-go-lucky mode of living.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Ellen had been given this preparation for marriage which any well- brought-up young lady received, and she also had Mammy, who could galvanize the most shiftless negro into energy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  Then there was an excited babble of negro voices in the darkness of the yard and high-pitched negro laughter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  The red color of her skin, narrow high forehead, prominent cheek bones and the hawk-bridged nose which flattened at the end above thick negro lips, all showed the mixture of two races.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  From the stables, men were streaming out on horseback, negro servants riding hard behind their masters.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  Surely there wasn't a negro on earth as tall and loud voiced as this one except Big Sam, the foreman of Tara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  As the artillery rumbled by, splashing mud into the watching crowds, a negro on a mule, riding close to a cannon caught her eye.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  She, Scarlett O'Hara was lying behind a negro cabin, in the midst of ruins, too sick and too weak to move, and no one in the world knew or cared.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
10  Through the open windows of the dining room, she saw smoke drifting lazily out of the negro cabins.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
11  The second Mrs. Calvert had never known how to compel respect from negro servants and it was not to be expected that she could get it from a white man.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
12  Beside her perched the bow-legged little negro who had trained her horses and he looked as glum as his mistress.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
13  This last she could hardly believe, for she had never seen an insolent negro in her life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
14  Even the presence of a negro maid would not satisfy the conventions.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
15  Abandoned negro children ran like frightened animals about the town until kind-hearted white people took them into their kitchens to raise.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
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