Example sentences for: bloomsbury

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

  • Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins,

  • The great bohemias of history--Murger's and Charles Baudelaire's 19 th -century Paris, Bloomsbury, the French and German Dadaists, the Surrealists, the Beats, the indie rock scene--were flamboyant and self-enthralled.

  • The orientation of the two books is different: the interval of fourteen pages covered in the comments on the new Brewer (which includes 146 entries) occupies only eight pages in the Bloomsbury (which has 81 entries, both counts including cross references); of these, only about a dozen appear in both books.

  • Words , by this reviewer (recently published in a revised, British edition by Bloomsbury under the title, Dictionary of Difficult Words [plug, in case you missed it]).

  • The anecdote of the Polish lady who resented the slur on her country [review of the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang , XVII , 3:17] reminded me of an incident related to me by a friend who taught third grade in a church-affiliated school.


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