Example sentences for: cottle

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

  • Dr. Basil Cottle, a scholar at the University of Bristol, in his useful little book, The Plight of English , devotes nearly four pages to it, describing it at the beginning as a deplorable little syllable.

  • Basil Cottle, a British scholar, in his book, The Plight of English (1975) [reviewed III,3], says that he likes gotten and feels that it is an improvement on mere got which he says is a nasty verb.

  • For those who know their name books, it falls somewhere between Basil Cottle's Names (1983) and my own Guinness Book of Names (4th edition 1989).

  • -- Michelle Cottle


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