Example sentences for: allan

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

  • Under the control of the Department of War, its first head was the legendary private detective Allan Pinkerton, a friend of McClellan's who had learned of--and helped avert--an attempt on Lincoln's life in 1861.

  • Founded in 1850 by Scottish immigrant Allan Pinkerton, the firm ran Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid out of the country on behalf of wealthy railroad owners, and beat the heck out of striking workers on behalf of anyone with a few bucks.

  • Scottish artists include Allan Ramsey, Sir Henry Raeburn, and Sir David Wilkie.

  • And Bellow, too, is putting the finishing touches on a novel titled Ravelstein , about his late friend Allan Bloom, so I had to mention that.

  • Readers choose a book to discuss (currently Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind ), elect a Fraygrant to lead the discussion, and have themselves an electronic book group.


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