Example sentences for: essayist

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

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (1803–1882), commented about success (I have adapted his comments for all of us who gathered in Washington in mid-May 2005): “To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life breathed easier because you have lived; this is to have succeeded [as a whistleblower].”

  • A profile cheers Sherman Alexie, American Indian poet, essayist, novelist, and filmmaker.

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

  • As a Newsweek essayist puts it, the team is "having some fun--not to mention making some profit--with America's sexual obsession."

  • The case of mistaken identity fed its popularity and launched JQA's career as a political essayist.


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