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.

  • Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins,

  • (A slap on the wrist here to William Rose Benét's The Reader's Encyclopedia and Kenneth McLeish's Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide, which respectively give the latter misspellings.)

  • 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 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.


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