Example sentences for: epigraph

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

  • The novel's epigraph from, what else, Kafka's "A Hunger Artist," is a warning:

  • And that appears to be the underlying purpose of English Accents and Dialects, a fitting epigraph to which might be added Lady Percy's tribute to her husband killed on the battlefield:

  • And last of all, but first in the book, we are adding something that no book should be without: an epigraph.

  • (He had, after all, called his third memoir New York Jew .) When I suggested that what he was really doing was Judaizing Eliot, making him serve as an epigraph to Kazin's American-Jewish life-hungry odyssey, he laughed approvingly.

  • Kruger and Dunning's finding also calls to mind the quotation from Soren Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death that serves as the epigraph to Walker Percy's novel The Moviegoer : "[T]he specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair."


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast