Example sentences for: alfred

How can you use “alfred” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • ‘The shell is rather like a Camembert cheese box or a petri dish’, explains marine ecologist Christian Hamm (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany).

  • Under the proprietary leadership of the photographer and all-around impresario Alfred Stieglitz, the group had called itself Photo-Secession, which sounded radical and daring, but Stieglitz was so obsessed with achieving artistic legitimacy that the group's work restricted itself to counterfeiting the effects of drawing and painting.

  • Like many people, I was baffled when I first read his poems in high-school anthologies: "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" sounded like antique mumbo jumbo in comparison with the up-to-the-minute adolescent angst of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."

  • With the advent of the new medication, the doctors now had a cure in their bag, allowing them to shelve the psychological explanations trumpeted by venerable sex gurus like Masters and Johnson and Alfred Kinsey, as well as the ancient belief that growing old means growing soft.

  • With his flushed and blotchy skin, his narrow feminine nose, his gap-toothed grin, and his eyebrows that rise to meet each other like sides of a triangle, Nichols looks like a scary blend of Hugh Hefner and Alfred E. Neumann.


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