Example sentences for: compleat

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

  • Isaak Walton is the earliest known to have used the modern spelling when, in The Compleat Angler , he wrote of “the worst or coarsest fresh water fish.”

  • Besides going to Valencia for paella, the compleat traveler in Spain should experience duende . This is not easy to arrange, however, for duende , unlike paella, cannot be made to order.

  • Ernest Hemingway spent a lot of time fishing and writing here — photographs of this prominent visitor still adorn the walls of the Compleat Angler Hotel, where he wrote To Have and Have Not.

  • Consider the movie: what script writer would show us Minor copying out words from a 1693 volume called the Compleat Woman rather than a remorseful and forgiving grapple with a tipsy Mrs. Merritt?

  • Surgeon General's Warning: "The Compleat O.J. by the Sea" is 94,025 words long, and the printout is exactly 84 pages.


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