Example sentences for: cologne

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

  • "Then on a lark my research technician brought in cologne because a lot of other animals like it and we put Obsession out and our ocelots went wild over it."

  • I'd bought a cone of solid sugar and a boxOf tea for the saint himself, a felt-tip penFor his son, the saint-elect, and bubblegumFor a confusion of small fry--the five-year-oldAunt, say, and her seven-year-old nephew.Nothing for the women, of course, the tattooed,One-eyed, moon-faced matron, or her daughterWhose husband had long ago run awayAfter killing their newborn by pouringA bottle of cheap cologne down its throat.This was, after all, our first meeting.

  • Saturday's Guardian featured a long piece about GM crops in India and reported that a group of 500 Indian farmers went to Cologne to protest what they see as Monsanto Co.'s attempts to make farmers dependent on genetically modified cotton crops.

  • An item in Britain's Observer Sunday reported that world leaders meeting at the G-8 summit in Cologne, Germany, designated genetically modified food as one of the "greatest threats facing the planet"--along with AIDS and the millennium bug.

  • In an editorial on the G-8 summit in Cologne, Germany, the Times said world leaders "should stick to the hard stuff," such as the Balkans and Third World debt relief, rather than introduce a new topic, education--"an interloper that risks distracting leaders from urgent matters and perverts the purpose of these summits"--to their discussions.


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