Example sentences for: bates

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

  • A good barometer of the change is the John Bates Clark Medal, which is given every two years to an economist under 40 (which, incidentally, makes it harder to get than the Nobel).

  • Only four of the 58 Chicago Housing Authority buildings for senior citizens have air conditioning in every room, according to CHA spokeswoman Karen Bates.

  • Must be some long-forgotten civil rights hero, a friend of Daisy Bates' perhaps.

  • The modern Christian sex advice business dates to 1973, when the evangelical Marabel Morgan achieved brief notoriety for The Total Woman . Morgan famously suggested that wives spice up their marriage by greeting their husbands at the door wearing nothing but Saran Wrap--a seduction attempted with sad consequences for Kathy Bates in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes . James Dobson, founder of the evangelical group Focus on the Family, published a sex-and-marriage book in 1975.

  • --but Bates was great.


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