Example sentences for: doth

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

  • Early modern English used car poetically for the chariots of the sun and planets, as in Milton's image of a maritime sunset in Comus: And the gilded car of day / His glowing axle doth allay / In the steep Atlantic stream.

  • Though such words as betimes and whither and such forms as doth and hath have dropped out of ordinary usage, today's English-speaking reader of average education can read most of the Diary without encountering any word that would send him to his dictionary.

  • Except for proper names, the spelling checker stopped on two words in the Time paragraphs that were not in its lexicon: show- biz and credentialed . Likewise two words in Pepys's entry gave pause to the checker, though they are not so much lost words as obsolete forms of words: hath and doth . I should add that where Pepys phonetically wrote then he meant than and that he used the adjective handsome to describe his financial condition, as we would rarely do today.

  • Rather, it is the artistry that rubs off on the person steeped in the best parts of the culture, the phrase unconsciously plucked from a 17th-century poem or 16th-century play, (no matter how corny, like Methinks the lady doth protest too much), the single word that indicates at least passing familiarity with history (like defenestration ), the fragment of an air associated with a Bach fugue.

  • News , Mortimer Zuckerman, who pretends he didn't fire him, or Harry Evans, who doth protest too much that he did?


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