Example sentences for: clifford

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

  • In a bare six and a half pages Rybakin takes us on a crash course in the history of English first names, from Anglo-Saxon Æthelbeald to the titlederived names of modern times such as Duke and Earl . He rightly devotes part of his survey to a consideration of surnames as first names, although in his main entries names of this type such as Bradley, Chester, Clifford, and Seymour are simply explained as deriving `from the surname.

  • A few years later, a British fleet commanded by George Clifford, the Earl of Cumberland, shrewdly outflanked the fortress.

  • Longabaugh R, Minugh A, Nirenberg TD, Clifford PR, Becker B, Woolard R. Injury as a motivator to reduce drinking.

  • Roger Altman is not to be confused with the three Robert Altmans who, are, respectively, a celebrated film director, a former law partner to Clark Clifford, and a former Rolling Stone photographer who took these compelling shots of hippies during the 1960s (counterintuitively, it is the lawyer who is married to Lynda "Wonder Woman" Carter).

  • A synopsis: In the 1930s, Kazan got his start in the Group Theater, a left-wing theater troupe that was home to the legendary directors Lee Strasberg and Harold Clurman, as well as the radical playwright Clifford Odets.


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