Example sentences for: bryson

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

  • The article by Bill Bryson [XVII, 4] on the vagaries of English abroad unfortunately also serves to illustrate the lack of linguistic understanding which exists between our two countries.

  • Bill Bryson's enjoyable “English Know-how, No Problem” (Spring 1991) states that the Russian word for railroad station vagzal comes from Vauxhall in London.

  • I read Bill Bryson's article “English Know-How, No Problem” with much interest and amusement.

  • I am willing to take Bryson's word for many of the bits of information with which this book abounds, to wit, “Among the Xoxa tribe of South Africa the most provocative remark is hlebeshako -- `your mother's ears,' ” the wisdom that “Some cultures don't swear at all,” and the revelation that in Finland, “When you stub your toe getting up to answer the wrong number at 2.00 a.m.,” you mutter (shout?)

  • I have a hunch that he means Bill Bryson, and the reference is probably to his book, The Mother Tongue .


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