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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.