Example sentences for: hickman

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

  • Though either white or a fair-skinned mulatto, "Bliss," as the senator was known as a boy, was raised by Hickman to be a black minister.

  • It's as if Hickman and Sunraider have an independent existence of which Ellison offers glimpses and glances in the various pieces he never assembled into a single structure.

  • The language is far more complex and difficult than that of Invisible Man . In place of a single narrator, there are at least three: The authorial voice; Hickman; and Sunraider, who speaks in a number of distinct tongues--as the child Bliss, in dreams, in remembered conversations, and in convoluted memories poured into a death-reverie stream of consciousness.

  • (Click to read a brief excerpt describing Sunraider waking in the hospital with Hickman at his bedside.)

  • We only find out subsequently that Sunraider is Bliss and that "Why hast Thou forsaken me" was his opening line at Hickman's revival service, when he would rise, Christ-like, from a coffin.


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