Example sentences for: brontë

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

  • [Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights]

  • Sometimes she'll whip up a Brontë sister , which is an essentially somber dress with some feminine furbelow--a row of tiny covered buttons, perhaps--to hint that the wearer has hidden fires banked beneath her peplum.

  • Newsweek 's Jeff Giles calls it a "hokey tragic romance" and Entertainment Weekly 's Vanessa Friedman says it "reads like a high school essay--'write the story as if you were Charlotte Brontë.

  • Susan Pearson is character in Charlotte Brontë's novel Shirley (1849).

  • Also in this group, I would say, are Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1846), not “Weathering,” “Withering,” or any similar fancy, and, admittedly more trickily, Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow (1921), not `Chrome,” although of course the pun on this word is intentional.


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