Example sentences for: elisabeth

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

  • Herbert Coleridge, the first editor of the Philological Society's dictionary, was not the poet's grandson; Elisabeth Murray's biography was only taken on by Oxford after Yale University Press had turned it into a bestseller and shamed OUP into publishing it (OUP having earlier rejected it as unworthy).

  • Toward the end of his life, historian of psychoanalysis Elisabeth Roudinesco tells us, Lacan "usually saw his tailor, his pedicurist, and his barber while conducting his analyses."

  • German director Volker Schlöndorff ( The Tin Drum ) tries his hand at film noir, but most critics say he should stick to "adapting serious literary works" (Jack Mathews, Newsday ). They complain that his film--about an ex-con (Woody Harrelson) who falls for the wife (Elisabeth Shue) of a dying millionaire--overdoes the shadowy lighting and complicated plot twists of the genre.

  • Elisabeth Benjamin was able to salvage some things from 90 Church St. But fears of what wafted into her office are causing her to throw out almost all of them.

  • -- Elisabeth Meyer Paducah, Ky.


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