Example sentences for: doe

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

  • The individual plaintiffs in the Washington case were listed in the appeals-court opinion as "Jane Roe; John Doe; James Poe; Harold Glucksberg, M.D." ("Glucksberg," of course, is not some ambitious new departure in the field of generic fictitious names, and there will not soon be a movie called Meet Harold Glucksberg . Glucksberg is just the real name of a doctor involved in the case.)

  • Many of the DOE's functions, like owning oil (the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) and oil fields (the Naval Petroleum Reserve), can be privatized.

  • The chief defense attorney, Stephen Jones, stated, "We certainly will contend that there is a John Doe 2, and maybe 3, 4, and 5." Such a plurality of Does is typically cause to invoke the variant forms.

  • Watkins described a DOD official who wanted to stonewall public concerns about environmental contamination and safety threats at DOE sites by exercising the government's sovereign-immunity defense against litigation.

  • There are not many sources that come readily to hand offering pronunciations of Tán Bó Cualinge . The choice of entry is eclectic: Kotex is in, but not Tampax (no pun); many common names whose pronunciations are unlikely to be in doubt are in also: Kennedy, Johnson (though the Swedish author ought to remain), John (with a French pronunciation shown), John Bull, John Doe (but not Richard Roe), Heston, Hicks , etc.


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