Example sentences for: eleanor

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

  • But it isn't very satisfying to say that Eleanor Roosevelt became a great woman mostly by making the best of a bad business, is it?

  • But while Eleanor's agenda looks separatist--women-only press conferences, an attempt to avert World War II through a Lysistrata -style "women's strike for peace"--it also succeeds in grafting onto Roosevelt's coalition new blocs of the hitherto-disenfranchised without which the New Deal would be impracticable.

  • From Lorena to Eleanor: "I've been trying today to bring back your face.

  • The 30-year relationship between Eleanor and "Hick," as the First Lady called her, has been the subject of all manner of speculation over the years.

  • But the moment she berates the "privilege" of those who couldn't afford to make a down payment on her carriage house, or invokes the "greed" of those making 125 percent of the mean per capita income, I'm with Hick, who said to Eleanor during a White House dinner, "God damn it--none of us ought to be wearing velvet dinner gowns these days."


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