Example sentences for: canterbury

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

  • Mr. Alan Major [XXI,3] can take comfort: arzey-garzeys is alive and well here, eight miles or so from Canterbury.

  • Father Sexpot is a stock character going back to Rabelais, to The Canterbury Tales , and why not?

  • While the pope has warned the archbishop of Canterbury that the ordination of women as Anglican priests poses "an increasingly serious obstacle" to reconciliation between Rome and Canterbury, he has indicated a surprising willingness to compromise on a seemingly more fundamental obstacle to reunion: the papacy itself.

  • "Ever since The Canterbury Tales , people have been judged by their stunning ability to have their careers summed up by the A, B, and C entries in the glossary for The Canterbury Tales .

  • Fill in the blank as David Mixner, a gay rights advocate, praises President Clinton at a black-tie fund-raising dinner in Los Angeles: "Ever since 'The Canterbury Tales'--strange crew that was--people have been judged by their ____________.


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