Example sentences for: clare

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

  • Walcott twins Clare--who was driven mad by social injustice and consoled by the smallest beings in nature--with mad Tom, Edgar's disguise in King Lear , who, like Clare, wanders the English countryside praising frogs and gnats: "I am moved like you, mad Tom, by a line of ants;/ I behold their industry and they are giants."

  • As a teen-ager, Clare herself was given to pronouncements like: "Matrimony!

  • Book -- Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce , by Sylvia Jukes Morris;

  • "It's a beautiful, well-constructed façade, but without central heating," as one of Clare's escorts said of her.

  • Self-educated, poor beyond imagining, John Clare experienced a brief, condescending vogue as England's "Peasant Poet," at a time when illiteracy was a norm for England's rural workers, and poets were expected to come from higher social ranks.


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