Example sentences for: epigraph

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

  • I remember the epigraph of James T. Farrell's book Studs Lonigan , which I read more than 60 years ago:

  • In addition to laying the groundwork for "post-colonial" studies as an area of inquiry, the book inspired a flurry of scholarship devoted to "the other"--to groups of people who, by virtue of race, gender, sexuality, or geographical location, are unable to represent themselves and so (to echo the line from Karl Marx that serves as the book's epigraph) "must be represented" by those more powerful.

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

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

  • As we said when we adopted an epigraph for the Commission on the Year 2000: "The past is never finished, for the future is yet to come."


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