Words similar to bierce
Example sentences for: bierce
How can you use “bierce” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
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.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
The most systematic example of this form may be found in The Devil's Dictionary , by Ambrose Bierce.
(The Cynical Definition went on to become a kind of literary genre, thanks especially to Ambrose Bierce.)
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