Example sentences for: bourbon

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

  • It may also explain the expression "scared stiff" (in the sense of tumescent, not in the sense of immobilized by drunken overindulgence in a gift bottle of bourbon that one never received).

  • The French Opera House, at the corner of Bourbon and Toulouse streets, opened in 1859 and supported the nation’s first resident opera company.

  • Geographically if not temperamentally part of the Left Bank, the Palais-Bourbon is the seat of the Assemblée Nationale (parliament).

  • Populism has more often found a home in the Highland South than in the coastal "black belt," which has been dominated since colonial times by the elitist conservatism of ruling-class Bourbon families and their allies.

  • Little remains of medieval Madrid, but there are glimpses of the oldest parts of the city in the Arab walls and several attractive small plazas, as well as many other discoveries to be made in this area that extends from the River Manzanares and Palacio Real (Royal Palace, actually the legacy of the later Bourbon rulers) to the lively, congested Puerta del Sol, still the nerve center of Madrid.


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