Example sentences for: gutenberg

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

  • It is as old as Sumerian tablets, to say nothing of the Gutenberg press.

  • Although the book remains uniquely portable, durable, and an aesthetically satisfying means of conveying written information, there is one corner of the Gutenberg galaxy where print may be passé--the world of scholarly publishing.

  • Go in to view the John Singer Sargent’s murals, Harry’s book collection, including a 1623 Shakespeare portfolio and a Gutenberg Bible from 1450, and whatever is being shown in the Houghton Library.

  • The McChesneyite critique of big media misses the long-term trend that started with Gutenberg and is accelerating with the Internet: As information processing becomes cheaper, so does pluralism and decentralization, which comes at the expense of entrenched powers--government, the church, the guild, nobility, and the magazines and TV stations that Big Media God Henry Luce founded.

  • That's why This Week panelist Linda Douglass picked Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press, as the man of the millennium: "The written word … enables us to preserve our laws."


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