Sumter

[suhm-ter, suhmp-]

noun

1. a city in central South Carolina.

2. Fort Sumter.

Sumter

/ ˈsʌmtə /

noun

1. See Fort Sumter

Example Sentences

“Jack Ciattarelli himself admitted that his last campaign was ‘too white,’…yet his recent actions show he has no clear understanding of how to advance the real needs and priorities of Black New Jerseyans,” Assemblywoman Shavonda Sumter, chair of the New Jersey Legislative Black Caucus, said in a statement to Salon.

From Salon

“Our state needs leaders who will fight for equity, opportunity, and dignity for all, not those who rely on empty gestures to mask the absence of meaningful policy and progress,” Sumter said.

From Salon

At South Carolina’s Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park, flagged titles focused on the history of slavery, including books like Harriet A. Jacobs’ “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and the essay collection “Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff on American Memory.”

From Salon

Officers received a call about a shooting incident at an apartment on Sumter Grove Way in southern Florida at around 8:08 p.m., the spokesperson said, adding “this was an isolated incident.”

From Los Angeles Times

When South Carolina fired on Fort Sumter in 1861, the reason why they got tens of thousands of Union volunteers willing to go and fight is because of this decadelong process of a vaguely antislavery public transforming into a much more militantly antislavery power.

From Slate