Example sentences for: attila

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

  • Though he describes himself as being "to the right of Attila the Hun on crime," he authorized the Willie Hortenesque early parole of more than 700 sex offenders in 1992.

  • 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.

  • When Attila died in 453 the Huns were overthrown and the Avars became the dominant power, occupying the region from the middle of the sixth century to the early ninth century.

  • I would like to thank Richard Trudeau, Sherlock Holmes, and Attila the Hun for helpful comments on an earlier draft.

  • Sun Tzu is alleged to have written The Art of War some 2,500 years ago--so he isn't personally plying the seminar circuit, but his translators and interpreters are, along with those promoting other military-history hall of famers like Attila the Hun, Karl Von Clausewitz, and the 17 th -century samurai who wrote A Book of Five Rings.


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