Example sentences for: euripides

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

  • Major names of the time included the dramatists Euripides and Sophocles, the historian Herodotus, the philosopher Socrates, and the brilliant scientists Zeno and Anaxagoras.

  • Euripides might feel at home editing the tabloids this month, what with murder-suicide (Phil Hartman and his wife, Brynn), internecine family warfare (the Sinatras), incarceration for wife beating (Tommy Lee), and bizarre behavior (Charlie Sheen and Farrah Fawcett).

  • Even Euripides didn't write all bummers.

  • One might have been tempted to chide these respondents with the comment that "Pride goes before a fall" (Proverbs 16:19), but doubtless they would just have snapped back brazenly with "Euripides" or "Racine."

  • Among the exceptions are Jesus', Moses', and names of more than one syllable whose unaccented endings are pronounced eez, as in Euripides' or Xerxes'.


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