Example sentences for: finn

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

  • 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.

  • Finn may be right when he argues that "to say we're only going to deal with the new ones is to say we'll solve the problem 20 years from now."

  • Chester Finn, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, who formerly worked in Ronald Reagan's Department of Education, and who is sympathetic to many of Clinton's goals, insists, "The states are the constitutional authorities in education."

  • White novelist Richard Ford and black essayist Stanley Crouch re-enact Huck Finn and Jim's voyage down the Mississippi River and pen their respective reactions: Crouch rejoices that it's no longer anomalous for a black man and a white man to share a boat; but the trip leaves Ford unsettled about his own latent racism.

  • Plus, a Scandinavian furniture report: Jon Krakauer is "Into Finn Chairs."


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