Example sentences for: falstaff

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

  • Falstaff teaches Hal how to be a quick-witter punster and a master of play; he also teaches him a commoner's skepticism of power and its pretensions.

  • It's possible George means that his generation's drug of choice was alcohol (presumably not "sack," Sir John Falstaff's favorite beverage).

  • But what does he mean when he says he's "from the Falstaff generation"?

  • More likely, however, George is alluding to Falstaff's observation in Henry IV, Part I , that "the better part of valor is discretion" (Act V, Scene iv, line 120).

  • Specifically, George may mean that when he was in college he drank a lot of Falstaff Beer.


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