Example sentences for: canterbury

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

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

  • Americans will appreciate the irony of the scornful British rejection of I guess, a term that was good enough for the author of The Canterbury Tales .

  • Canterbury bells are nothing like Westminster chimes, Manchester tart is different from Bakewell.

  • "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 .

  • In Chapter VI of Vanity Fair , Thackeray reports on Joe Sedley's drunken avowal to wed Becky Sharp the next morning, even if he had to “knock up the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth,” in order to have him in readiness to perform the ceremony.


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