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left-winger

[ US /ˌɫɛftˈwɪŋɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who belongs to the political left

How To Use left-winger In A Sentence

  • A business tycoon, arts patron and committed left-winger, Berge opted to sell the collection amassed over a lifetime after Saint Laurent's death last June aged 71.
  • The choice sets up a rerun of the 2008 mayoral race, pitting veteran left-winger Livingstone against Conservative incumbent Boris Johnson. World Watch
  • Brazil's left-wingers blame the energy crisis on privatization.
  • The Dallas Stars sent their 33-year-old left-winger to the Phoenix Coyotes for a 37-year-old right-winger in an auspicious transaction for the Stars.
  • The home side opened the scoring after eight minutes with an unconverted try from their left-winger.
  • Only three years earlier in 1971, the Turkish army had carried out a putsch, and for two years left-wingers suffered arrest, torture and murder.
  • This is the most recent instalment of the veteran British left-winger's journals, covering everything from the rise of New Labour to the war in Afghanistan.
  • Two left-wingers have been put forward for the Labour Party's National Executive.
  • If the right-wingers disdain Lincoln for being too aggressively antislavery, the left-wingers scorn him for not being antislavery enough.
  • The party leader is an extreme left-winger, but her deputy is more moderate in her views.
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