Example sentences for: bierce

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

  • Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911

  • The lexicographic mind, Ambrose Bierce observed in one of his newspaper columns, is a merely human affair and will occasionally cut its capers.

  • Ambrose Bierce defined an adage as “boned wisdom for weak teeth”; the challenge to the epigrammatist is to put some teeth into it.

  • (The Cynical Definition went on to become a kind of literary genre, thanks especially to Ambrose Bierce.)

  • The most systematic example of this form may be found in The Devil's Dictionary , by Ambrose Bierce.


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