Example sentences for: chaucer

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

  • Like Chaucer.

  • Ha-ha, he-he , or hee-hee may be the closest spelled-out equivalents, with te-hee as a feminine version, dating back to the laugh that Chaucer assigned the reeve's wife in the Miller's Tale.

  • The gags in Office Space aren't anything-goes: They're rooted in what sociology professor Lynn S. Chaucer calls Sadomasochism in Everyday Life: The Dynamics of Power and Powerlessness (the title of her 1992 book).

  • From the origin of Chaucer to that of Buffalo Springfield , Room covers them all.

  • Just think how many words must have been coined by writers whose works are the only ones extant from early periods of the language: people who misuse citation dictionaries must think that Richard Rolle of Hampole, Holinshed, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and a handful of other geniuses sat down one day and invented the English language, making up the words as they went along.


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