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Example sentences for: elizabethan
How can you use “elizabethan” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
(Benedict Nightingale, the London Times ). However, some critics dismiss the project as a corny, nostalgia-heavy tourist trap, "an Elizabethan theme park" (Roy Hattersley, the Guardian ). (Click here for the Globe's site.)
In short, the Republican House has deteriorated into a sub-Shakespearean Elizabethan revenge drama.
When Cole Porter in the song Just One of those Things wants to suggest the painful directness with which Dorothy Parker might have sent a discarded lover on his way, he switches incongruously from plain language to an Elizabethan flourish:
In Professor Spevack's concise (6 pp.) and witty Preface, he defines his broader purpose in compiling this treasury of Shakespeare's idiolect as an attempt to mirror, not only the figurative universe of Shakespeare's words, but the literal world of the Elizabethan age as well.
"Stinking fish" was a derogatory Elizabethan reference to vaginal odor; and cod--as in cod piece--was slang for penis.
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