Example sentences for: bryson

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

  • How Bryson may feel about being conflated with Lord Bryce is anybody's guess.

  • Mr. Bryson was over-hasty to condemn that bomber jacket in Hamburg as “gloriously meaningless” [XVIII, 2], for anyone who has spent time on a farm would recognize it as intended for people supplying chickenfeed to egg producers: what it bears is a good plain advertisement for the product.

  • Under its, it's , Bryson gives, among others the following examples from the Washington Post , “Its the worst its been in the last five years,” “Its come full circle,” then goes on to say “ It's , which was intended in each of the examples above, is the contraction of it is.

  • 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 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?)


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