Example sentences for: doric

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

  • Italy has no more magnificent testimony of its Greek colonies than this complex of wonderfully preserved Doric temples, a 40-minute drive south from Salerno, dating back to the fifth and sixth centuries b.c.

  • Aberdonians have the Doric, with its quines girls and loons boys, Glaswegians bombard you with The Patter, famous for its infamous glottal stop and raw, street humor.

  • They come fluted like a Doric column and mottled and horned like a Holstein cow.

  • There actually are 86, Doric in style, in what was to have been the colony’s covered market.

  • To call the Scots tongue Doric (meaning broad or rustic) is to perpetuate the notion that it is the speech of uneducated country folk, an idea still endorsed by snobbish anglophiles in Scotland.


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