Example sentences for: byrd

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

  • Her first was to one Euple Byrd, who, reports the Star , when she drove off to Nashville to become a singer, shouted after her: "Dream on!

  • A unanimous jury condemned avowed racist Lawrence Russell Brewer for killing James Byrd Jr., a black man who was dragged alive for three miles behind a pickup truck before his head was torn off by a concrete culvert.

  • And, as a counterpoint to all the luscious, bare-breasted white girls used to tempt the hero into playing for the Man, there's a hooker (the model Milla Jovovich, the film's most unlikely bit of casting, made to look like a near albino) who's exploited and knocked around by a jittery black pimp (Thomas Jefferson Byrd) so sadistic that if this film had been made by a white director he'd have been cited (most likely by Lee) as a flagrant racist outrage.

  • When you consider that his colleagues include Robert Byrd and Joe Biden, that is really something.

  • But as the Washington Post puts it, "Byrd has been one of the Senate's toughest critics of Clinton's behavior in the Lewinsky scandal, and virtually every scenario for convicting the president has included the 81-year-old West Virginian defecting from the Democratic camp."


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