Example sentences for: constable

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

  • Burton's imagery has an ecstatic intensity; it's too bad that the movie--loosely based on the Irving classic about a ghost who haunts New York's Hudson Valley in the decades after the American Revolution--has been constructed as a sort of proto- Hound of the Baskervilles . In the screenplay, credited to Andrew Kevin Walker ( Seven , 1995) but reportedly rewritten by Tom Stoppard, the schoolteacher Ichabod Crane is now a New York City constable (Johnny Depp) who travels upstate to solve a series of beheadings using the fledgling sciences of pathology and deduction.

  • “The IUU fishery for Patagonian toothfish expanded rapidly in the mid-1990s, likely on the order of 20–30 vessels,” says Andrew Constable, an ecological modeler at the Australian Antarctic Division (Kingston, Australia), who also works with the Scientific Committee of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (Hobart, Australia).

  • Works such as Raphael’s Bridgewater Madonna, a Rembrandt Self-Portrait, and Velázquez’s Old Woman Cooking Eggs are only three from a collection that includes pieces by Titian, Van Dyck, Rubens, Constable, Turner, and Vermeer.

  • It therefore seems unlikely to be in any way connected with the excessively macho Constable.

  • His career of flight and lawlessness started in 1851 when, with several other men at a fandango, he witnessed or was involved in the death of a constable named Hardimount.


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