Example sentences for: emerson

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

  • Here is Hollis Hall attended by Emerson and Thoreau, Massachusetts Hall attended by John and Samuel Adams, H. H. Richardson’s Sever Hall, and Charles Bulfinch’s Stoughton and University Halls.

  • Emerson was in his late 20s at the time, a Boston minister still reeling from the loss of his young wife, who had died of tuberculosis 14 months earlier.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson's journal contains this intriguing entry for March 29, 1832: "I visited Ellen's tomb and opened the coffin."

  • Ralph Reed generally prefers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Martin Luther King Jr., our secular saints.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (1803–1882), commented about success (I have adapted his comments for all of us who gathered in Washington in mid-May 2005): “To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life breathed easier because you have lived; this is to have succeeded [as a whistleblower].”


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