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Example sentences for: coventry
How can you use “coventry” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
According to the blurb on the dust jacket of this distinctly unpleasant book, Rosalind Miles is head of the Centre for Women's Studies at Coventry Polytechnic, a lecturer, broadcaster, journalist, and author of several other books, including a “highly acclaimed” biography of Ben Jonson.
It is thus a name along the lines of Coventry.
He was also not entirely familiar with English money and mistakenly paid her fifteen guineas, thus leaving Lady Coventry smiling at her unexpected gain of a further fifteen scheling (or was it shelin, seling, or even chelin?).
Take Coventry, for example, and turn to the general reference books and guides.
Yes, they are cautious, and do not explicity derive Coventry from convent, but they do imply that the word is the source of the name.