Example sentences for: giles

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

  • It's a "touching but melancholy variation on a tune we've heard many times" (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ), and reviewers seem a bit tired of the tune.

  • Gregory uses stream in the way normal in England; Giles consistently refers to gens in the hills of central Australia, though glen is not current (outside place-names) in contemporary Australian English.

  • Fiona Giles, editor of a book called Dick for a Day: What Would You Do If You Had One?

  • The novelist's 47 th book is pronounced a "rare misfire" (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ). Set in 2020 after a nuclear war, it is lambasted as consisting mainly of an old man's "bombast" (Richard Eder, the Los Angeles Times ) about death, sex, and excrement.

  • 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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