Example sentences for: bohemia

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

  • Cabaret of the distinctly kitschy kind is the nightly rule at Bodega Bohemia (Lancaster, 2), on the west side of La Rambla.

  • Originally, the phrase expressed the fact that to Germans living in Bohemia the Slav village names sounded strange and that the Germans could not understand them precisely.

  • Now, people have been proclaiming the death of bohemia ever since a 19 th -century Parisian, Henri Murger, wrote a book that would become an opera that would become synonymous with the artistic life right up to the moment when the whole concoction was boiled down to corn syrup in the Broadway musical Rent . Jerrold Seigel, the author of an excellent history of bohemianism, Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life 1830-1930 (1986), says that when people go around saying bohemia is dead, what they usually mean is that they can't see how to wiggle free of commercialism and convention: "People experience bohemia as a form of authentic existence."

  • Kazimierz, a pragmatist, did not try to wrest control of Silesia, in the hands of Bohemia, or the territory seized by the independent state of the Teutonic Knights.

  • Finally, there are the amateur ethnographers from Chicago, Seattle, Austin, Brooklyn, and other centers of bohemia.


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