Example sentences for: dwight

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

  • The social critic Dwight Macdonald wrote in his great 1957 essay, "The Triumph of the Fact" (later reprinted in his book Against the American Grain ) that Americans are in love with facts, "valuing Facts in themselves, collecting them as boys collect postage stamps, treating them, in short, as objects of consumption rather than as productive tools."

  • -- Tim Carvell (similarly, Dwight K. Lemke )

  • His evocation of Hong Kong is "full of sharp observations--on subjects ranging from politics to food to sex to servitude" (Dwight Garner, Newsday ). But his protagonist, a misanthropic businessman named Neville "Bunt" Mullard, is deemed poorly drawn.

  • Unmentioned in the Post was that Dwight Eisenhower used the same flimsy national-security excuse to build the interstate highway system.

  • In 1952 he salvaged his spot as Dwight Eisenhower's running mate with the famous "Checkers" speech.


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