Example sentences for: budd

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

  • His efforts to insinuate himself were so relentless that Cary Reich, the author of this sprawling new biography (and of an earlier biography of the financier André Meyer), refers to his subject as a "patrician Sammy Glick" (though he never reaches the heights of heeldom demonstrated by the hero of Budd Schulberg's novel about pre-war Hollywood back-stabbing).

  • At first it seems as if Witt will indeed be Billy Budd to Welsh's vindictive Claggart.

  • His works include the operas Peter Grimes (1945) and Billy Budd (1951), the choral works Hymn to St Cecilia (1942) and A War Requiem (1962), and numerous orchestral pieces.

  • USAT gets credit for going to novelist and boxing expert Budd Schulberg for some historical perspective, but slips a little in saying that his novel The Harder They Fall inspired the movie "On The Waterfront."

  • H erman Melville: At an anti-impeachment rally this week, the novelist Mary Gordon suggested that Clinton was in fact Billy Budd.


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