Example sentences for: bourbon

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

  • 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.

  • On the lookout for any contagiously progressive movement, the Austrians helped Bourbon King Ferdinand of Naples crush an 1821 revolt for constitutional monarchy and foiled a similar uprising in Piedmont.

  • 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 sagging flesh on that square head encases small, babyish features, and the belching sounds that come out of that barrel chest are like an infant's squalls after a thousand shots of bourbon and 10 times that many cigarettes.

  • When the caudillo died in 1975, Prince Juan Carlos, the grandson of the Bourbon King Alfonso XIII, succeeded to the Spanish throne.


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