Example sentences for: burgess

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

  • Anthony Burgess, in his Kingdom of the Wicked , remarks that Vespasian's own contemporaries designated street urinals as “vespasians,” certainly a much more ignominous affront because of its timeliness.

  • This book (the possession of which may become a substitute for reading it, to paraphrase Anthony Burgess in The New York Times Book Review ) should appeal to anyone over the age of thirty who has developed a sufficiently mature sense of reality to become a cynic.

  • Well, I'm off to bed now, for good re-read of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange (1962).

  • I, for one, would not object to a dictionary review being written by an Anthony Burgess or a Kurt Vonnegut.

  • The Times linked her to the notorious "Cambridge coven" of five male spies--Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross.


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