Example sentences for: cuthbert

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

  • Of Course, Cuthbert

  • Ivor Brown, in one of his delightful books on words, Random Words (1971), writes that Cuthbert had been an honored English name, but that somehow during the 1914—18 war it “ceased to be a name and became an insult” and was used of slackers who evaded military service.

  • Now back to Cuthbert the saint.

  • Kirkcudbright (`Church of Cuthbert'), the name of a small former Scottish county and its main town, is pronounced “kir-KOO-bree”—which Brown reports is said by the natives with a “dove-like murmur.”

  • Re the article on Cuthbert, Dickens uses intercourse to mean `communication between people' in A Christmas Carol when Scrooge says “I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse” to the third Spirit.


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