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How can you use “dryden” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
A few months ago, a colleague wrote saying that he had encountered my mention of it but had been unable to find any reference in Dryden's writings.
In other words, there are some who believe that we might be well advised to attend to what Milton, Donne, Dryden, Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Austen, Alcott, Dickens, and thousands of others have contributed to the molding of the language in all its reflexes and who find it difficult to understand the usefulness to be derived from an analysis of idle telephone and flatmate conversations, student essays read by no one other than the instructor charged with their marking, business letters read by no one other than their (individual) recipients, non-printed examination scripts exposed to nobody, social letters, classroom lessons, business transactions (between, for example, architect and 2 clients and solicitor and client), and so on.
4 million advance from Harcourt Brace imprint Dryden Press.
Lest the reader think of Dryden as a stuffy purist, here he is on neologisms:
Dramatic Poesy & Other Essays, John Dryden, Everyman's Library, J.M. Dent, 1912, 1950, p. 100.