Example sentences for: epigraph

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

  • 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:

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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."


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