Example sentences for: guthrie

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

  • Country and blues are a far more obvious source of rock 'n' roll phrasing--Ray Charles, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, Howling Wolf.

  • Since Tyrone Guthrie opened the festival in a tent in 1953, Shakespeare and other English classics such as Sheridan and Marlowe have been given pride of place.

  • There's nothing but tragedy in the trial of a young black man who has killed a white man for driving on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday weekend with a Confederate flag flying on his truck, an incident that has thoroughly riven the once fairly harmonious town of Guthrie, Ky.

  • Walter S. Mossberg, who writes the "Personal Technology" column for the Wall Street Journal , but whose true expertise lies in the field of music (when Chatterbox worked at the Journal 's Washington bureau, he was the only person there who knew all the words to Woody Guthrie's "Union Maid"), takes exception to this column's assertion that baby boomers were not the first large mainstream audience to embrace rock 'n' roll (which previously, of course, had been embraced by blacks).

  • Woody Guthrie, who wrote "This Land Is Your Land," was a Communist.


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