Example sentences for: eliot

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

  • Eliot, edited by Christopher Ricks.

  • Eliot's--an entry that runs on for two and a half pages), the name of just one Yiddish theatrical figure, Boris Tomashefsky , Hebrew literary works ( Zohar ), nonce formations ( money/shmoney , which takes up two pages), misspelled place names to indicate mispronunciation ( BRANzvil , for Brownsville , a section of Brooklyn), Yiddish words that are never used in English ( FUHLKStimlech `folksy,' guht `God,' ich starb `I'm dying'), encyclopedic terms ( black Jews ), and nonexistent words ( who-er “defined’ by the author as “Not exactly Yiddish, but the New Yorkish pronunciation of whore’).

  • It is there in T. S. Eliot's poems ("Burbank With a Baedeker: Bleistein With a Cigar"), the subject of a disputed book by Anthony Julius just a year ago.

  • Eliot, edited by Christopher Ricks (Harcourt Brace).

  • Lukas knew better about such pre-World War I hellholes as the Coeur d'Alenes district of Idaho; or Cripple Creek and Leadville in Colorado; or the Comstock mines of Nevada, as described by one Eliot Lord:


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