Example sentences for: austen

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

  • In other words, there are some who believe that we might be well advised to attend to what Milton, Donne, Dryden, Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Austen, Alcott, Dickens, and thousands of others have contributed to the molding of the language in all its reflexes and who find it difficult to understand the usefulness to be derived from an analysis of idle telephone and flatmate conversations, student essays read by no one other than the instructor charged with their marking, business letters read by no one other than their (individual) recipients, non-printed examination scripts exposed to nobody, social letters, classroom lessons, business transactions (between, for example, architect and 2 clients and solicitor and client), and so on.

  • The last year has been one of Jane Austen's brightest; PBS and cable TV have given fresh life to Hardy, Scott, and all three Brontës; even Dickens got a Hollywood makeover this winter, his Great Expectations transported from Kent and London to New York and Florida.

  • Her New York novels give Jane Austen a run for her money as social satire, but then there are the elegaic Ohio books.

  • Traditionally, most scholars have believed there's only one existing portrait of Jane Austen, a rather unflattering sketch by the novelist's sister.

  • Austen, O'Connor, and Emily Dickinson were classic spinsters.


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