Example sentences for: carroll

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

  • The only difference between this and a conventional soap opera (or, for that matter, an episode of The Love Boat ) is that Carroll doesn't spell out the interrelationship among the couples until the final scene, a symbolic remarriage in which the characters realize that talking about love might be as futile as dancing about architecture, but you have to do it anyway if your life is going to mean anything.

  • A jury cleared Carroll O'Connor of slander for calling his deceased son's cocaine supplier "a partner in murder."

  • Others of Carroll's verbal concoctions are now found in our dictionaries, such as slithy (probably from slither ), gyre (from gyrate, perhaps), and chortle utter a low, deep laugh.

  • At least since Lewis Carroll intrigued his readers with Jabberwocky, there have been writers—Robert Heinlein and Dr. Seuss, to name two—who deliberately minted new words.

  • -- Andrew Silow-Carroll ( Noah Meyerson had a similar answer.)


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