Example sentences for: bourke

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

  • Although Bourke was first and foremost a military man, he became interested in ethnology and anthropology and wrote extensively on these subjects.

  • William Hill has offered odds of 10-to-1 that Bill and Hillary Clinton would announce divorce proceedings during 1999, 20-to-1 that the controversial "Millennium Dome" would be scrapped, 100-to-1 that Prince Charles would marry his sons' former nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke, and 1 million-to-1 that the world would end in August.

  • Bourke observed, chronicled, and wrote both as a journalist and anthropologist about the folk medicine practices and the folk foodways of the Rio Grande region.

  • Through his friendship with the director of the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution, Bourke studied anthropology and broadened his interests to include ethnology and folklore.


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