Example sentences for: benedict

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

  • I am writing primarily to correct and update Benedict Kimmelman's article on the eff-word [XVI,2].

  • Benedict Arnold, commanding West Point, wrote to Timothy Pickering, Quartermaster General, regarding materials then needed at the fort.

  • British playwright David Hare, criticized in the past for his "preachy politics," is said to have finally found "his way beyond polemic" (John Lahr, The New Yorker ). Hare's new play about a self-centered film critic, his wife, and his mother-in-law is hailed as a "coup de théâtre " (Matt Wolf, Variety ), both for its social critique (of the amorality of the news media) and for its sensitivity "about such personal matters as loss, grief and stoical survival" (Benedict Nightingale, the London Times ). Hare's enthusiasts declare it time for canonization.

  • The Chicago Tribune 's Michael Killian calls him "a traitor to his epoch, the Benedict Arnold of Bucks and Button-Down."

  • The author, Jeff Benedict, claims that a study he helped conduct shows that 1 out of 5 NFL players has been charged with a serious crime.


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