Example sentences for: fluellen

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

  • Thus, Fluellen's condemnation was for the French slaughter of the boys in the English baggage train--a slaughter conducted, apparently, by French soldiers who fled the battle.

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

  • 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'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 then prompts an extended comparison on the part of Fluellen of Henry V and Alexander the Great.


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