Example sentences for: cerf

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

  • Today, its main claim to fame is that it provided its owners, Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, the financial underpinnings of a far greater publishing venture, Random House.

  • As Scribner authors, neither of us is likely to find much favor in a list of books sold by Mr. Cerf.

  • And there's Random House founder Bennett Cerf's son, Christopher Cerf, going on network television to advance the defense Macdonald mocked in his 1960 essay "Masscult & Midcult"--that cheap marketing devices like lists are justified if they mean that more people read more books.

  • The sales director at the time (1965) was Lew Miller, as wise and experienced a marketing man as one could find in publishing; Bob Bernstein was president; Bennett Cerf was chairman of the board, and the other important directors were Donald Klopfer and Tony Wimpfheimer.

  • If News Quiz were a radio panel show--a sort of What's My Line / I've Got a Secret with Larry Amaros as Bennet Cerf and Beth Sherman as Arlene Francis, or perhaps the other way around, whatever they like--the great advantage (beyond the chance to hear Ananda Gupta being audibly disdainful) would be posing several questions a day.


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