Example sentences for: beecher

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

  • Park Street Church stands on a site whose nickname comes from Brimstone Corner (some say for the fiery sermons delivered by such figures as Henry Ward Beecher and William Lloyd Garrison, who delivered his first anti-slavery speech here in 1829, others because gunpowder was kept in the basement during the 1812 War).

  • The hen, just for that, Laid an egg in his hat, And thus did the hen reward Beecher.

  • Her claims to fame: A onetime prostitute, she founded a brokerage house, ran for president, championed free love, and brought down the preacher Henry Ward Beecher by publicizing a sex scandal involving him.

  • These are as morally instructive in their way as the works of another, far greater sentimentalist, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin . Quindlen's first novel, Object Lessons , is a coming-of-age story about the perils of letting others tell you what to do in life.

  • Nor does the psalm sing as Henry Ward Beecher put it in “Life Thoughts,” “like a nightingale.


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