Used in a Sentence

tubman

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for tubman.

Editorial note

Harriet Tubman was also a criminal and she is going to be on the 20 dollar bill soon.

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Quick take

A surname.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of tubman gathered in one view.

noun

A surname.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tubman.

noun

A surname.

Example sentences

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Harriet Tubman was also a criminal and she is going to be on the 20 dollar bill soon.

2

Should Harriet Tubman have petitioned her local city council and waited for a referendum before freeing slaves?

3

Do you think Harriet Tubman was a bad person because she helped those who violated the law?

4

Congress has made rules regarding currency under which changing the portrait to show Harriet Tubman doesn't require specific Congressional approval.

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Imagine there was a documentary about Harriet Tubman and it was played by an all-white cast and written by all-white writers.

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I read a good post today: Don't try to explain Kendrick Lamar to someone Harriet Tubman would shoot.

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Harriet Tubman had every handicap and still became an absolute legend in abolition.

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Obama wanted to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

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(Also quite a lot of the reviews just seem to be indignation that they put Harriet Tubman in it...).

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Are you the Harriet Tubman of adhesives?

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> Obama wanted to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

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For every white actor cast in the Harriett Tubman movie, there was a black actor/writer who didn't get the part -- so it ultimately comes down to resources and tribalism which are real and concrete, but are represented in these tiny flashpoints.

Quote examples

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"The Treasury Department announced in 2016 that Tubman would replace Jackson" So in one instance, we have cancelling of minting new pennies, ototh we have the changing of a picture.

2

> The page was altered to remove Tubman in early February, per data from the Wayback Machine, replacing the image with a collage of Postal Service Underground Railroad commemorative stamps highlighting "Black/White Cooperation." I see, so this is going to be like when Republican politicians try to invoke MLK to argue against affirmative action, even though he wrote a book that explicitly advocated for it.

Proper noun examples

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Examples are like Harriet Tubman/Civil War, Martin Luther/Protestant Reformation, MLk/Civil Rights, Einstein/science in the early 1900's, etc.

2

From John Wilkes Booth and Jefferson Davis to Pinkerton and Harriet Tubman.

3

Think about Harriet Tubman, or the underground railway.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use tubman in a sentence?

Harriet Tubman was also a criminal and she is going to be on the 20 dollar bill soon.

What does tubman mean?

A surname.

What part of speech is tubman?

tubman is commonly used as noun.