Example sentences for: elizabethan

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

  • One of them, based on vague memories of the Elizabethan English of the Authorized Version (albeit much of its language was borrowed from Tyndale's 16th-century translation), is that Classical Hebrew tends to be long-winded and is overloaded with the equivalents of peradventure, verily, and Does it find favor in my Lord's sight?

  • Here and elsewhere in the two novels we find a shuttling between familiar and formal verb forms ( Digame/Tienes ) that certainly happens in Spanish, as it did in Elizabethan English as evidenced in King Henry IV, Part II, Act II, Scene IV:

  • When Noah's survivors decide to climb to heaven, the AV tells it in this archaic, Elizabethan way: And they said to one another, Go to, let us build a city and a tower.

  • Shakespeare in Love has authentic Elizabethan dress for everybody, but there's a good deal of extra emphasis on the way the period corsets flatten the breasts and strictly encase the ribs--and on how thrilling it is when the corsets come off.

  • In short, the Republican House has deteriorated into a sub-Shakespearean Elizabethan revenge drama.


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