Get to know Foner better with 10+ real example sentences.
Using Foner
- In the example corpus, foner often appears in combinations such as: eric foner, foner the.
Context around Foner
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 19 start, 0 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Foner
- In this selection, "foner" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, eric, wrote, freedom and 2010 stand out and add context to how "foner" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include foner p 600 and as eric foner wrote lincoln. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "foner" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with foner
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Eric Foner, Freedom's lawmakers: a directory of Black officeholders during Reconstruction (1993). (13 words)
Foner, 256. Almost immediately after this deistic upsurge, the Second Great Awakening began. (13 words)
Foner, 2010, p. 313 The House exploded into celebration, with some members openly weeping. (14 words)
In Foner's words, "Martí's impatience to start the revolution for independence was affected by his growing fear that the United States would succeed in annexing Cuba before the revolution could liberate the island from Spain". (37 words)
Foner, the primary advocate of this view, argued that it was never truly completed, and that a Second Reconstruction was needed in the late 20th century to complete the goal of full equality for African Americans. (36 words)
Foner, p.600 Disagreeing with Douglass, and despite the racist language she sometimes resorted to, Stanton firmly believed in a universal franchise that empowered blacks and whites, men and women. (30 words)
Example sentences (19)
Eric Foner’s new book, “The Second Founding,” argues that the failed promise of Reconstruction still resonates today.
As Eric Foner wrote: Lincoln was not an abolitionist or Radical Republican, a point Bennett reiterates innumerable times.
Eric Foner, Freedom's lawmakers: a directory of Black officeholders during Reconstruction (1993).
Foner, 2010, p. 313 The House exploded into celebration, with some members openly weeping.
Foner 2012 Lasner 2002 Memorials and presidential library Paper currency, double image of obverse (with Grants image) and reverse (with Capitol building image) seeAlso Several memorials honor Grant.
Foner, 247. He did this by employing "vulgar" (that is, "low" or "popular") language, an irreverent tone, and even religious rhetoric.
Foner, 256. Almost immediately after this deistic upsurge, the Second Great Awakening began.
Foner 365–8 Conservatives contended the rural schools were too expensive and unnecessary for a region where the vast majority of people were cotton or tobacco farmers.
Foner 375. Some states assessed property owners by a combination of land value and a capitation tax, a tax on each worker employed.
Foner 376. The taxes would serve as a market-based system for redistributing the land to the landless freedmen and white poor.
Foner 387. Taxes were quadrupled across the South to pay off the railroad bonds and the school costs.
Foner also maintains that with The Age of Reason Paine "gave deism a new, aggressive, explicitly anti-Christian tone".
Foner, ch. 9. In the lower South, violence increased as new insurgent groups arose, including the Red Shirts in Mississippi and the Carolinas, and the White League in Louisiana.
Foner, p.600 Disagreeing with Douglass, and despite the racist language she sometimes resorted to, Stanton firmly believed in a universal franchise that empowered blacks and whites, men and women.
Foner, p. 600. Douglass thought such a strategy was too risky, that there was barely enough support for black men's suffrage.
Foner, Reconstruction (1988 ) p 458 Historian George C. Rable argues that the Klan was a political failure and therefore was discarded by the Democratic leaders of the South.
Foner, the primary advocate of this view, argued that it was never truly completed, and that a Second Reconstruction was needed in the late 20th century to complete the goal of full equality for African Americans.
In Foner's words, "Martí's impatience to start the revolution for independence was affected by his growing fear that the United States would succeed in annexing Cuba before the revolution could liberate the island from Spain".
Walters, 10. Foner writes that "The Age of Reason became the most popular deist work ever written.
Common combinations with foner
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: