Example sentences for: harriet

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

  • My closeness to the University is strengthened by a family legacy which goes back over 100 years to my great-great-grandfather, Professor William F. Swahlen, who taught Greek at Indiana Asbury from 1887-1914, and carried on with my great-grandfather, Joseph P. Allen '97; my mother, Harriet Taylor Allen '28; my father, Joseph P. "Perk" Allen '30, professor emeritus of economics; my brother, Dr. David T. Allen '61; my wife, Bonnie Darling Allen '61; and continues today with my nephew, Tim Allen '92.

  • 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.

  • They decided that the once-beloved social novel--Smiley's prime example is Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin --was a weepy, feminine waste of time.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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