Example sentences for: belloc

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

  • In my own family Spoonerisms flourished luxuriantly for many years, and we hardly spoke of the weather, for instance, without invoking their oblique charm: It's rotting with Spain, or perhaps more frequently (it was in the English Midlands, which as Hilaire Belloc said are sodden and unkind): It's roaring with pain.

  • Collectivism is part of the common vocabulary now, and distributism was a movement that enjoyed Chesterton and Belloc as its chief advocates.

  • I was disappointed that Michael Kinsley's "modest proposal" to reform the welfare system by re-establishing slavery ("Good Jobs at Now Wages") did not mention the book from which it was likely inspired, Hilaire Belloc's The Servile State (1911).


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