Example sentences for: cookham

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

  • The better known he became, the more he burrowed into Cookham backyards and bedrooms.

  • Though Spencer's famous mural sequence at the Sandham War Chapel near Cookham, bristling with resurrected soldiers, is often considered his masterpiece, Travoys is more moving in its simple and devastating design.

  • Born in Cookham, some 30 miles west of London on the River Thames, Spencer had such an idyllic childhood that he spent the rest of his life re-imagining it in paint and seeking (often with disastrous results) to restore it.

  • A relief to turn from these pictures, which seem to prefigure our own sexually anxious age, to such comical dreams of resurrection as Spencer's exuberant The Dustman (1934), in which the Cookham garbage man has returned from the dead and is cradled like a baby in his wife's arms, while neighborhood children offer gifts of empty cans and other trash.

  • He made a triumphant return to painting, completing the dreamlike Swan Upping at Cookham (1915-1919).


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