Example sentences for: budd

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

  • Gordon may be on to something with the issue of sexual jealousy, but neglects the key difference: Budd is lusted after; Clinton lusts.

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

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

  • Melville's Budd is a naive, good man who is punished unfairly for an accidental murder he is provoked into committing by someone who tried to frame him for a crime.

  • --the replacement of "Sammy Glick" with "Tracy Flick" gives the game away--but told in a way that makes more (or more modern) sense: Its hero--unlike Budd Schulberg's--doesn't remain the voice of moral authority; his envy, self-hatred, and displaced lust makes him self-destruct in spectacular fashion.


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