Example sentences for: dougherty

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

  • Alison, Bailie, Stephen Bernow, William Dougherty, Michael Lazarus, and Sivan Kartha, 2001.

  • William H. Dougherty's article, “French Leave” [XVII, 3], concerning the difficulty of translating satisfactorily the title of the movie Au Revoir les Enfants , reminds me of a conversation that, as an undergraduate at Princeton, I had in the 1930s with Professor Maurice E. Coindreau, who was engaged in translating Hemingway into French.

  • I was intrigued by William Dougherty's comment [XXI,2] on Martyn Ecott's article The Franglais Blues [XX,3].

  • This strikes me as remarkable because, although Dougherty was not a literary person, he managed to combine an ironic analogy and parallelism to come up with a line that could be called pure wit.

  • My favorite is a retort by former college football coach, Duffy Dougherty, to a remark that football is a contact sport.


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