Example sentences for: anthology

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

  • Now, Gates and Appiah published a multicultural dictionary about a year ago, and Gates and Nellie McKay published the Norton Anthology of African American Literature shortly before that.

  • I'm not sure what it means that this remark is quoted without comment in the new anthology that commemorates 100 years of the New York Times Book Review . Wilson was saying the Times book section was relentlessly dull.

  • If we want to hear the Beatles, we can listen to their Anthology records," says Time 's Christopher John Farley.

  • The Anthology is a picture of what indigenous American music was like before the age of mass media, at a time when songs and ideas could only be transmitted by live performance and by rumor and yet circulated far and fast, among musicians isolated by race or poverty or lost in rural backwaters.

  • St. Johns law professor and Sunday poet Lawrence Joseph's anthology of conversations with New York attorneys is deemed humorous but "pointless" (Rob Long, the Weekly Standard ). Reviewers say Joseph is "good at catching the way people talk" (Christopher Lehman-Haupt, the New York Times ) and his characters "are first cousins to David Mamet's or Eric Bogosian's ranters" (Philip Lopate, Esquire ). But beneath the froth the book offers little insight into the way lawyers work, Long says; it's really about "what colorful New Yorkers talk about when they're trying to be colorful."


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