Example sentences for: essayist

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

  • Also, an essayist deplores his own investments in global mutual funds: His money helps repressive governments and exploitative foreign companies (But you can't beat the profits, he admits).

  • I like the theory espoused in the 1960s by the British essayist Clive James.

  • The first piece was an unsigned Dec. 18 editorial in the Economist , endorsing the opinion of an essayist from the British Foreign Office who considers irony a necessary virtue in a post-colonial world: It "suggests a certain modesty about oneself, one's values, and one's aspirations.

  • Here, Henry David Thoreau, philosopher, essayist, poet, and friend of Emerson, lived in a cabin from 1845 to 1847, and wrote Walden.

  • White novelist Richard Ford and black essayist Stanley Crouch re-enact Huck Finn and Jim's voyage down the Mississippi River and pen their respective reactions: Crouch rejoices that it's no longer anomalous for a black man and a white man to share a boat; but the trip leaves Ford unsettled about his own latent racism.


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