Example sentences for: cromwell

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

  • There was a massive dispossession of the Irish from their fertile lands in the east, and they were driven west of the Shannon; in Cromwell’s phrase they could go to “Hell or Connaught.”

  • Early in 1650 Oliver Cromwell stationed his garrison here while attempting to subdue the rebellious Scottish monarchists; he was victorious at the Battle of Dunbar.

  • in Scottish folklore, one of a dwarfish race of underground dwellers, to whom (with the Romans, the Druids and Cromwell) ancient monuments are generally attributed

  • The church became a barracks during Oliver Cromwell’s occupation of the city in the 1650; in 1718 there was an explosion of gunpowder that had been stored by city fathers in the tower.

  • Larry Flynt . When he heard I was a writer, Cromwell told me that he had just finished writing a novel.


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