Example sentences for: alger

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

  • Aha! thought Chatterbox--whoever wrote them was so worried about keeping them secret that he or she pecked them out by hand--perhaps on a replica of Alger Hiss' old Woodstock!

  • Critics say reading it is "rather like looking into the new edition of a book from which half the pages had previously been torn out" (Joseph F. Perisco, the New York Times Book Review ). Controversial figures such as Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs, and others thought by many to be the victims of the Red hunts of the '40s and '50s are confirmed as spies.

  • That Nixon himself isn't entirely convinced is suggested by the fact that Nixon makes the point over and over, even dragging in Chambers and all but saying the man was a fool to turn in Alger Hiss.

  • In 1948, in a case that played itself out on television (a first) and in the national headlines, he successfully brought explicit charges of perjury, and implicit charges of Soviet espionage, against Alger Hiss, who was head of the Carnegie Endowment.

  • Don Quixote is listed in the Appendix, but I could not find him in the dictionary, nor could I find quixotic, Queen of Sheba, Jeeves, Venus, Einstein (for `genius'), Hitler (for `demagogue, tryant'), Attila the Hun (for `barbarian'), Robinson Crusoe (for `castaway; lonely person')—but man Friday is in— Horatio Alger, Narcissus , etc.


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