Example sentences for: giles

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

  • St. Giles was the church of John Knox, the great Protestant reformer.

  • As you approach St. Giles Cathedral, the Royal Mile becomes High Street.

  • The film is "from deep in left field--immaculately written, unexpectedly touching" and is full of "exuberance and innocence" (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ). A few complain that the movie lags, and New York 's Peter Rainier criticizes it for "callowness."

  • (To the right of each place name, we also provide the spelling by which it was known in the old Wade-Giles system of romanization: for example, “Peking” instead of “Beijing.”)

  • Two hundred pages further on there is less exuberance in the circumlocution “that fluid so terribly scarce in the region,” and in three other references water is simply water . Giles is not always waxing poetic and may, like other explorers, be useful as a source for the history of Australian and general English.


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