Example sentences for: goose

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

  • When people say they miss me,I think how much I miss me too,Me, the old me, the great me,Lover of three women in one day,Modest me, the best me, friend To waiters and bartenders, heartyLaugher and name rememberer,Proud me, handsome and hirsuteIn soccer shoes and shortsOn the ball fields behind MIT,Strong me in a weightbelt at the gym,Mutual sweat dripper in and out Of the sauna, furtive observerOf the coeducated and scantily clad,Speedy me, cyclist of rivers,Goose and peregrine falconCounter, all season venturer,Chatterer-up of corner cops,Groundskeepers, mothers with strollers,Outwitter of panhandlers and billCollectors, avoider of levies, excises,Me in a taxi in the rain,Pressing my luck all the way home.

  • The Big Wild Goose Pagoda was built to house precious Buddhist texts brought back from India by Xi’an’s most celebrated pilgrim, an intrepid scholar named Xuanzang.

  • There is support, in both the OED 2nd Supplement and the Dictionary of American Slang , by Wentworth and Flexner, for Tony Thorne's definition, in the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang [XVII, 3], of `callow youth' for gunsel . That appears to be the primary meaning of the word, whose suggested definition is from Yiddish genzel, gantzel and/ or German Gänslein, Gänzel `gosling, young goose.

  • Let's see, he was hit in the schnoz by a goose and had to get two whole stitches.

  • Even the regular fictional series are borrowing the day's headlines or real-life characters to goose ratings, a practice as old as Shakespeare.


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