Example sentences for: gertrude

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

  • Queen Gertrude, about her son: "He is fat and scant of breath."

  • Of course, it's Gertrude Stein, speaking of the place she grew up, which I'm pretty sure was Oakland, Cal.

  • I cannot recall a more gratuitous grouse than Sarah Kerr's questioning, in an otherwise estimable piece, of the "reader-friendliness" of the Library of America's Gertrude Stein volumes ("What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate").

  • Professional moralist Gertrude Himmelfarb and conservative economist Milton Friedman won $25,000 lifetime-achievement awards.

  • "Inappropriate" easily outstripped "evil," a word that appeared in the Congressional Record a mere 250 times, though--William Bennett, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and other denouncers of moral relativism take note-- it still lagged behind "wrong," which appeared in excess of 999 times (the CR search engine doesn't count beyond three digits).


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