Get to know Truman better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like president.
Truman meaning
- A surname.
- A male given name.
- A place in the United States:
Synonyms of Truman
Using Truman
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname. | A male given name. | A place in the United States:
- Useful related words include: harry truman, harry s truman, president truman, united states president.
- In the example corpus, truman often appears in combinations such as: harry truman, the truman, truman capote.
Context around Truman
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 9 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Truman
- In this selection, "truman" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, president, harry, clifton, home, daniel and harry stand out and add context to how "truman" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1949 kfar truman was founded and although truman was gaining. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "truman" sits close to words such as chick, clarification and dwarf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with truman
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
We are honored to have President Truman’s grandson, Clifton Truman Daniel with us here today. (16 words)
Truman's cousin Richard Ice commented that Truman "was not only a fast talker but loud. (16 words)
McCarthy and the Truman administration McCarthy and President Truman clashed often during the years both held office. (17 words)
He called for the United States to return to President Truman's multilateralist foreign policies, and to follow Truman's credo that "the responsibility of the great states is to serve and not dominate the peoples of the world". (39 words)
The Truman film, hastily assembled on virtually no budget by the perpetually cash-short Truman campaign, relied heavily on public-domain and newsreel footage of the president taking part in major world events and signing important legislation. (37 words)
Stung by this setback, Truman soon announced that he would not seek re-election (however, Truman insisted in his memoirs that he had decided not to run for reelection well before his defeat by Kefauver). (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Across the street from the Truman home is the Noland home, where President Truman’s aunt, uncle and cousins lived.
We are honored to have President Truman’s grandson, Clifton Truman Daniel with us here today.
Bill and Babe Paley think Capote is the “other Truman” (Harry Truman) when they meet him in the 1950s.
In 1949, Kfar Truman was founded in Central Israel to honor Harry Truman, the first world leader to recognize Israel’s Independence.
Shortly after, Truman, with a punctured heart, has a torturous cafe scene with his ex, Jack Dunphy (Joe Mantello), where Jack pleads with Truman to enter rehab.
Micah Truman is CEO and founder of Return Home, a planned human-composting facility in Auburn with 65 vessels that Truman is aiming to open next spring.
Although Truman was gaining momentum, most political analysts were reluctant to break with the conventional wisdom and say that a Truman victory was a serious possibility.
As a result of Truman's low standing in the polls, several Democratic party bosses began working to "dump" Truman and nominate a more popular candidate.
Gathered in Washington to help the Treasury Department sell Defense Stamps, the group presented Truman with a bound volume of their comic strip characters, some interacting with caricatures of Truman.
He called for the United States to return to President Truman's multilateralist foreign policies, and to follow Truman's credo that "the responsibility of the great states is to serve and not dominate the peoples of the world".
McCarthy and the Truman administration McCarthy and President Truman clashed often during the years both held office.
Pulitzer Prize -winning historian David McCullough has written that Humphrey probably did more to get Truman elected in 1948 than anyone other than Truman himself.
Roosevelt, who personally liked Wallace and knew little about Truman, reluctantly agreed to accept Truman as his running mate to preserve party unity.
Stung by this setback, Truman soon announced that he would not seek re-election (however, Truman insisted in his memoirs that he had decided not to run for reelection well before his defeat by Kefauver).
The civil rights platform helped Truman win large majorities among black voters in the populous Northern and Midwestern states and may well have made the difference for Truman in states such as Illinois and Ohio.
The Truman film, hastily assembled on virtually no budget by the perpetually cash-short Truman campaign, relied heavily on public-domain and newsreel footage of the president taking part in major world events and signing important legislation.
This strategy proved to be a major mistake, as it allowed Truman to repeatedly criticize and ridicule Dewey, while Dewey never answered any of Truman's criticisms.
Truman's appointment of a liberal civil rights commission convinced Southern conservatives that to re-establish their voice they had to threaten third party action to defeat Truman in 1948.
Truman's cousin Richard Ice commented that Truman "was not only a fast talker but loud.
A day or two after the attacks, you had President Bush on the Truman Balcony with the man they called “Bandar Bush,” the Saudi ambassador to the United States, smoking cigars together.
Common combinations with truman
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- harry truman 56×
- the truman 16×
- truman capote 14×
- truman and 11×
- president truman 9×
- of truman 9×
- truman in 8×
- truman is 7×
- truman was 5×
- at truman 5×