Example sentences for: finn

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

  • Three camps oppose the bill . One, including Bush/Reagan education officials Bennett, Diane Ravitch, and Chester Finn, supports the idea of testing but opposes Clinton's version.

  • Two years ago, Smiley published an essay in Harper's --a manifesto, really--claiming that readers have been conned into seeing Huckleberry Finn as the "definitive" American novel when it's actually a mess and a moral disaster.

  • As Finn rightly points out, a similar but narrower penalty provision in the 1994 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act has never been used; although some states have received warnings, none has lost funds, as is permitted under the law.

  • Checker Finn and Diane Ravich, two of Bush's education advisers, have championed this idea in the past.

  • The first of these is the possessive, the second represents the vowel of is . (The Joyce title is typical of the author's linguistically inventive but allusive style, and is actually a compound of two proper names: that of Finn MaCool, the Irish folk-hero, and Tim Finnegan, the hero of a music-hall ballad, who sprang to life in the middle of his own wake.)


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