Example sentences for: eighteenth-century

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

  • 2 And, of course, the great monuments to the eighteenth-century understanding of freedom are the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

  • But on balance Wiltshire's book is sound and sensible, a distinguished contribution not only to Johnsonia but to the wider field of eighteenth-century studies.

  • And later, à la Rousseau, "As my understanding of the kinds of scripts about sexuality available to women bore down on me, the forest would function the way that fantasies of wilderness functioned for the urbanized eighteenth-century European mind: I would find myself making a mental reference to the forest when I searched for a symbol for female lust."

  • This last discovery caused quite a stir in eighteenth-century France, leading to an “unprecedented assault” on snails as both naturalists and the general public participated in the quest for scientific knowledge by reproducing Spallanzani's intriguing results (Newth 1958).

  • Damning with faint praise and exceptionally witty prose, Gill skewers both Harold Ross ("As for manners, Ross might truly be said not to have had any") and William Shawn ("Shawn, by contrast, might be a revenant from some small eighteenth-century court").


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