Example sentences for: ezra

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

  • Next door is the synagogue Ben-Ezra, now no longer used for regular services though the guardian will allow you to look inside if he is available.

  • The closing lines of the poem, with the sentence dancing eagerly over and across the ends of the lines, suggest that William Butler Yeats read Jonson closely--and indeed Yeats and Ezra Pound did study Jonson during the months when they shared a cottage in the country.

  • I have never seen anything meaner (nor agreed with anything more) than Ezra Pound's "take" on A. E. Housman:

  • His was, as he saw it, a continuous poetic journey, aided here and there by slaves or muses--Arthur Symons, the symbolist who introduced him to the poetry of Paul Verlaine and Stéphane Mallarmé in the 1890s; Maud Gonne, who made Irish nationalism romantic; Lady Augusta Gregory, an Irish Protestant aristocrat who collaborated with Yeats in his search of old Irish folklore and legends; and Ezra Pound, who stiffened Yeats' soft "Celtic" verse with a little modernist geometry.

  • But this does not differ from what, for example, Ezra Pound did to T.S.


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