Example sentences for: evelyn

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

  • Joseph's older sister Evelyn, the good girl in the hard-working and undemonstrative Zimmerman family, committed suicide when she was 16.

  • You can't imagine anyone describing a white presidential assistant--Evelyn Lincoln or Rose Mary Woods--this way.

  • Yet a number of years ago, Auberon Waugh (familiarly called Bron, as the British are wont to do with public figures), the son of Evelyn Waugh, had a column in The Spectator in which he remarked: "We are all familiar with being in strange places and not knowing exactly where we are.

  • The even-handed, Continental use of Maria never caught on in Britain, but the dual Evelyn was already established, as was Leslie/Lesley . In America, Lee made no distinctions: Lee Radziwill, Remick, J. Cobb, and Harvey Oswald.

  • "The Beast stands for strong, mutually antagonistic governments everywhere," says the press magnate, Lord Copper, in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop . That is a pretty good attitude to have about domestic politics.


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