Example sentences for: burroughs

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

  • The fact that Tarzan is really an English lord--Lord Greystoke, to be precise--was central to Burroughs' conception of his character.

  • In the works of Burroughs, today's race/class/gender theorists can easily find a key to the racial, social, and sexual anxieties of early 20 th -century white American men and boys.

  • It may be fun to say, as Frank put it in the Baffler , that William S. Burroughs' "inspirational writings are boardroom favorites, his dark nihilistic burpings the happy homilies of the new corporate faith."

  • 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.

  • Death --William S. Burroughs;


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