Example sentences for: boleyn

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

  • The daughter of the second wife of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and therefore dubbed a bastard by the papists, the Protestant Elizabeth ascends the throne to find the air still thick with smoke from roasted heretics, a team of skulking Catholics plotting her assassination, and a council of advisers (lords, bishops, sundry old boys) who snigger openly at the prospect of taking orders from a woman.

  • The list is decidedly Brit-heavy, with citations for Elizabeth I (Best Leader), Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn (Best Sex Scandal), the purchase of the Suez Canal (Best Land Deal), and Adm.

  • It's probably safe to say Clinton's real feelings for Lewinsky actually go in another direction; see the Anne Boleyn theory, above.)

  • In order to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII had broken with Rome and brought the English church under his own control.

  • Like Boleyn, she may have been an incompliant consort, but by then she was a former one.


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