Example sentences for: cheever

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

  • 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.

  • 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.)

  • (Read this interview with Cheever in the New York Times [requires free registration], in which she responds to Yardley's comments in the Post : "That's just what he did to Daddy."

  • The "inescapable conclusion of Note ," he continues, "is that Cheever is a horrible person, engorged with self-regard, who has been masticating the corpse of her dead, successful father for fun and profit."

  • In front of a cozy fire on a winter's night in the library of one of John Cheever's country houses, on the beach at Waikiki, even on a New York or London commuter train, finding Legerdemain in Two Senses and False Scents can be fun and games for all, and all you need is (usually) some printed matter or even just an inventive mind.


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