Example sentences for: harriet

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

  • Not exactly Ossi and Harriet: The NYT runs a front-page story that is nearly a decade old: the continued economic and attitudinal rift between Western and Eastern Germans (known as Wessies and Ossies).

  • Though the family gathered around the table in this Ozzie and Harriet update is stolidly suburban, it comprises Asians; though the spot proffers a squishily trite bedtime-story shot, it does so with an explicit nod to the minority family, an implicit nod to the minority parent.

  • Nor are they better (you asked for my favorites) than E.L. Konigsberg's From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler , or Louise Fitzhugh's books ( Harriet the Spy is best known, but the one I remember best is Nobody's Family Is Going To Change ).

  • 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.

  • This was happening long before r- dropping became common in English accents: Barbara to Babs, Bartholomew to Bat, Bridget to Biddy, Christopher to Kit, Dorothy to Dot, Frances to Fanny, Harriet to Hat, Herbert to Hab or Hub, Jordan to Judd, Margaret to Maggie or Meg, Margery to Madge, Martha to Mattie , and Theresa to Tess .


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