Example sentences for: fluellen

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

  • Fluellen, in the great tradition of the Shakespearean Fool, uses the comparison to make Henry out to be an ass.

  • Fluellen's remark follows immediately Henry's order to his men to kill their prisoners, which would have scared anybody in Shakespeare' audience who knows anything about war: The side whose captured soldiers have been murdered invariably retaliates by killing the men it has captured, and the men ordered to slit their prisoners' throats understood that.

  • This is what Fluellen and Gower think provoked King Henry's command to kill England's French prisoners, and both soldiers fully approve of that command.

  • Fluellen first compares Henry to Alexander the Pig , is corrected by Gower, defends his malapropism, then goes on to say that the reason Alexander and Henry are alike is they both kill their friends!

  • Obviously, we are meant to laugh at Fluellen's nonsense, but still.


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