carpetbagger

Example Sentences

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What’s more, to dismiss the photographer as some kind of carpetbagger was, arguably, to misunderstand the West.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023

From Heizer’s perspective, the family history proves he’s not a carpetbagger like some other artists who headed west to make earthworks, Robert Smithson prominent among them.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2022

“Within two weeks or three weeks there was no mention ever made of Bobby Kennedy being a carpetbagger again,” Mr. Lois recalled in an interview with journalist Andrea Chalupa.

From Washington Times • Jul. 18, 2022

Some personal issues dogged Durant, along with accusations of being a carpetbagger who hardly ever voted in Alabama.

From Washington Post • May 26, 2022

Before the week was up he had become an expert chicken thief, being able to rob a roost as quietly as the most finished carpetbagger on the sunny side of Mason and Dixon's line.

From The Mad King by Burroughs, Edgar Rice