Example sentences for: anne

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

  • Meanwhile, the condemned man's lawyer (Anne Heche) pleads; the prisoner himself, Lewis (Joaquin Phoenix), shivers half-naked in his filthy quarters; and you munch on your popcorn and say, "I'd be a hero.

  • First, he gets the Immaculate Conception wrong, which refers to the conception not of Jesus but of his mother, Mary--it's the Virgin Mary's mother, St. Anne, whose hymen is invisibly pierced by the Holy Ghost.

  • Schama traces the history of women alienated by the crown: Anne Boleyn, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Princess Caroline of Brunswick (who?)

  • Hence, Anne Hollander on fashion, Susan Faludi and Karen Lehrman on feminism, and a "Diary" entry by Nancy Lemann.

  • Is there an automatic place for the top consciousness-raising tracts of the fifties (David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd ), sixties (Norman O. Brown's Love's Body ), seventies (Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism ), and eighties (Alan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind )? A tempting (and sensible) option is to split the difference between influence and style by picking the top books about the major events of the century: Communism (snubbing Whittaker Chambers's Witness would be a scandal), race and colonialism (Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma , Octavio Paz's The Labyrinth of Solitude ); modern art (Woolf's A Room of One's Own , alas; Edmund Wilson's Axel's Castle , if To the Finland Station misses under Communism); and the Holocaust (with Anne Frank's diary likely to top the whole list).


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