Example sentences for: giles

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

  • She clashed early on with Edinburgh’s famous Protestant reformer, John Knox, who held sway in St. Giles but later adopted an uneasy policy of religious tolerance.

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

  • St. Giles was a cathedral for only five years of its long history.

  • The art direction, costume design, and photography are top-notch: "It's the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations" (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ). Johnny Depp, playing Ichabod Crane as an effete Manhattan detective sent to get to the bottom of a rash of beheadings, shines (or more accurately, is appropriately pallid).

  • The town’s High Street stretched beneath the castle along the ridge to the east (today the Royal Mile), past the parish church of St. Giles, and out to the Netherbow, where Edinburgh ended and Canongate began.


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