Example sentences for: clement

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

  • To be sure, four names—Heather Gay, Brian O'Kill, Katherine Seed, and Janet Whitcut—appear on the Acknowledgements page, but so do names of a lot of other people (like Frank Kermode, Melvin Bragg, Clement Freud, Germaine Greer, Clive Jenkins, and Janet Street-Porter) whose direct connection with the book at hand would seem to be much more remote.

  • Linked to the Vatican by a thick-walled passage, it served as a hideout for popes in times of danger, notably Pope Clement VII, who holed up here for a month during the sack of Rome by Habsburg troops in 1527 (see page 27).

  • Their chief accomplishment: Clement Moore's "A Visit from St. Nicholas," the 1822 poem that introduced Americans to Santa Claus (of course you know it: " 'Twas the night before Christmas ..."

  • The debate was inspired by Adam Gopnik's recent New Yorker review of Florence Rubenfeld's new biography, Clement Greenberg: A Life , and the Charlie Finch review in ArtNet magazine.

  • After all, there exists a tendency these days that is eager to reclaim the likes of Norman Rockwell while consigning to his former cell Clement Greenberg and his exemplars.


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