Example sentences for: englishman

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

  • Ergo, Pooh is an Englishman (Englishbear, whatever).

  • Gowers, himself an Englishman, said that “in Scotland, its land of origin, the pronunciation is skawn , and English people who know this so pronounce it.”

  • The Dutch also looked to the west, and in 1609 sent Englishman Henry Hudson to search for a route to China.

  • In the '60s, an Englishman named Terence Conran opened a store in London called Habitat, selling what has come to be called "transitional" furniture--mixable pieces so neutral and inoffensive they could fit into any environment.

  • The jolly old bean's got his jolly old back up , so one sees how smoothly these stories prepared the readers for the transition to Wodehouse and encapsulated the idea of the laid-back Englishman in the idiom of that time.


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