Example sentences for: cheever

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

  • In the '80s, Maslin married Benjamin Cheever, son of John Cheever and also a novelist.

  • Back in the 1950s, twin colossi sat astride the Hudson, figuratively glowering at each other: Betty Friedan in Grandview on the West Bank, writing The Feminine Mystique , and John Cheever in Scarborough on the East Bank, writing the Wapshot books and the short stories.

  • Critics draw parallels to Susan Cheever's memoir of her father, Home Before Dark , but find this book less shocking because unlike John Cheever, Dickey Sr.'s demons were widely publicized.

  • She judged a Barnard fiction competition with Saul Bellow, and at Yaddo, when she had bad nosebleeds, it was John Cheever who came to her rescue.

  • The Westchester, N.Y., setting makes the story read like "Cheever country on crack" (Norah Vincent, the Boston Globe ). "People will be talking about this one" ( Kirkus Reviews ). (Read an excerpt of the novel here.)


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