Example sentences for: epigraph

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

  • 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.

  • 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:

  • 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."

  • (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.


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