How to Use Whig in a Sentence

Whig

noun

• Yet a former Whig president emerged as one of Buchanan’s chief rivals in the fall campaign.
  — Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
• After the caustic irony of the Whigs, the sincerity is jarring.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
• The Afghan Whigs return today with their first original song in four years, after sharing a pair of covers a few months back.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 19 Mar. 2026
• Polk went on to narrowly defeat Henry Clay, the Whig standard-bearer.
  — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 24 July 2024
• King was elected to the state's second constitutional convention as a Whig.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 16 Nov. 2022
• He was elected to Cincinnati City Council as a Whig in 1840 but left the party the following year.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
• The pragmatic Whig politician Abraham Lincoln learned from the abolitionists’ mistake.
  — Jack Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 21 July 2022
• Webb’s newspaper catered to his (mostly) Whig subscribers, and its pages were filled with biased partisan commentary and correspondence submitted by his Whig friends.
  — Michael J. Socolow, The Conversation, 7 Dec. 2020
• At the Whig state convention in Syracuse that summer, antislavery militants and ideologues were thoroughly hidden from view.
  — Matthew Karp, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
• The radical Whig revolution failed in London, derailed by the backlash to the French Revolution.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• The Whig party was founded in 1834 principally to oppose Andrew Jackson.
  — Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Apr. 2025
• Adams appointed Clay secretary of state, and their coalition became the National Republicans, later the Whigs.
  — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2024
• Historians consider the election of 1840 — Democrats versus Whigs — to be the first truly modern presidential election.
  — Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 14 Sep. 2024
• The Federalists and Whigs tended to support tariffs, partly for protectionist reasons and partly to generate revenue to build domestic infrastructure.
  — Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026
• As a writer and active member of the Whig Party, Malthus was a reformer who advocated free national education, the extension of suffrage, the abolition of slavery and free medical care for the poor, among other programs.
  — Roy Scranton, JSTOR Daily, 18 Sep. 2025
• Politically, these tensions split and ultimately destroyed the old Whig Party, in which Lincoln had spent most of his political career, inspiring anti-immigration nativists to form a political organization of their own.
  — Harold Holzer, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024