Example sentences for: doyle

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

  • Loose ends: (a) While we're on the subject, or at least next door to it—or at any rate, before we leave its vicinity—let this be said for the record: Nowhere in the works of Arthur Conan Doyle does arch-sleuth Sherlock Holmes ever actually say, Elementary, my dear Watson.

  • Attorney General Janet Reno's decision to appoint an independent counsel to investigate Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is Issue 3. Amazing, say the pundits: Babbitt has "the finest reputation [for ethical conduct] of anyone in public life" (Oliphant); is "the last [Cabinet member] one would imagine getting in trouble" (Doyle McManus, Washington Week in Review ); and is "the most honest man in government" (an adoring Margaret Carlson, Capital Gang ). The oft-ironic pundits do not note that being the most honest man in Washington is like being the best-complexioned boy in the dermatologist's office.

  • The General begins with his murder and the cheers that go up when word reaches the police station, then flashes back: As a boy, he steals pastries, which he gallantly shares with his future wife, Frances (Maria Doyle Kennedy).

  • In August, Mike Doyle of the University of Georgia applied for a patent on some nonvirulent strains of E. coli that wipe out the nasty version when fed to cattle.

  • To take only the most famous example, when Doyle Dane Bernbach came up with its brilliant ads for Volkswagen in the early 1960s, no other agency would have made those ads.


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