Example sentences for: harriet

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

  • Surely every student of American literature knows that Harriet Beecher Stowe was the sister of the famous clergyman Henry Ward Beecher and the wife of Dr. Calvin Stowe, another eminent divine.

  • You can see how it works in the recent movie Pleasantville , in which a pair of modern teens are transported back 45 years--not into real life, but into a black-and-white Ozzie and Harriet -style TV sitcom.

  • Also note the Charles Street Meeting House, where Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and other abolitionists preached.

  • The editors, New York University's Catharine Stimpson and independent scholar Harriet Chessman, have done a perfectly fresh job assembling both canonical and neglected pieces to trace the evolution of this oddest of minds.

  • The principal figure in this development was Dr. `Arris Toddle, who invented the Syllogism in Barbara, as well as those in Betsy, Patricia, and Harriet.


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