Example sentences for: bloomsbury

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

  • Tony Thorne's Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang (1990) claims that it has been adopted by non-native hippies and travellers living in the West Country to refer to anyone who is not approved of.

  • The play is "Spencer's life reduced to Two Weddings and a Funeral , a quaint and titillating Bloomsbury parallelogram," says the Wall Street Journal 's Donald Lyons.

  • 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.

  • Bloomsbury Dictionary of First Names

  • It is perhaps unfair to review the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Phrase & Allusion alongside the Brewer's Twentieth Century: despite the similarity of the titles, the former is a slighter work; also, it consists largely of quotations and the titles of books, plays, films, and other written works traceable to them (and vice versa).


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