Example sentences for: burroughs

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

  • Something like this vision inspired Theodore Roosevelt, the asthmatic Yankee patrician who turned himself into a cowboy and, as an ex-president, nearly died while exploring a tributary of the Amazon in Brazil, in an adventure that might have been scripted by Burroughs.

  • If only Jung had put Edgar Rice Burroughs on his depth-psychologist's couch.

  • McWhorter, George T., Burroughs Dictionary: An alphabetical list of proper names, words, phrases and concepts contained in the published works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, University Press, Lanham, Maryland, 1987.

  • William S. Burroughs (1914-1997).

  • In the interview, Mailer recalls reading a line from William S. Burroughs in 1959 that flat out cleaned his clock: "I see God in my asshole in the flashbulb of orgasm."


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