Example sentences for: exley

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

  • Exley, as sensitive as a rotten tooth, can bear the world in the smallest doses only, and any extended period of consciousness forces him back to the bar, the hospital.

  • Yardley's conclusions don't add up to much in any conventional biographical sense, and he admits as much in his prologue: "[Exley] lived on another planet, if not in another universe."

  • Exley asks when he's committed.

  • In America, Exley implies--indeed, he shouts it--a person is either a suffering poet or a cheerful drone.

  • A Washington Post book critic and Exley's literary executor, Yardley is said to use scant evidence--such as numerous late-night phone calls from Exley from 1975 to 1992--to draw conclusions about Exley's self-absorption and ambiguous sexuality.


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