Example sentences for: clare

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

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

  • Born in 1903 to parents who never married (her father, William Boothe, was already married to someone else), Clare was the repository of her socially frustrated mother's yearnings for a brilliant destiny.

  • In contrast, Bernardo Bertolucci's Besieged , from a script that the director wrote with Clare Peploe, has no narration and little dialogue: The intent is to keep the audience disoriented.

  • But Walcott also wants an outsider's view on this exalted material, and he finds it in the 19 th -century English peasant-poet John Clare, whom he makes into a stand-in for himself.

  • 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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