Example sentences for: bates

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

  • We are always swept up in some idealized notion of what China is or should be," says Brookings Institution scholar Bates Gill.

  • On the box is a small sticker that states the pillow may have a "particular smell" that is "completely harmless" and "will disappear after some time," which sounds like something the proprietor of the Bates Motel might say.

  • Bates, who took part in dozens of murders of Catholics, has spent less time in prison than Joe Doherty, who was convicted of one killing.

  • Dr. Bates is a coinventor on Patent No.

  • And, as Libby Holden, the campaign's self-proclaimed "dust buster," the manic-depressive idealist who accepts as her mission the elimination of all dirt, Kathy Bates is a dyke tornado.


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