Example sentences for: historian

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

  • In the Daily Telegraph , British military historian John Keegan wrote that a new air campaign against Iraq "would probably have to be nastier than it was before, directed at civilian targets, which the coalition forces deliberately spared in 1991."

  • Here comes Miles, authoritatively quoting Diodorus, the Greek historian, who recorded (60-30BC) that “innocent women even swelled the ranks of pitiful slaves whose forced labour built the pyramids:

  • In The Future Once Happened Here , historian and polemicist Fred Siegel quotes Mayor Robert Wagner, circa 1965, as saying, "I do not propose to let our fiscal problems set the limit of our commitments to meet the essential needs of the people of this city."

  • One historian has argued cogently that Calvin Coolidge's psychological problems helped .)

  • Two weeks ago, art historian Simon Schama predicted in The New Yorker that Pam Gems' play about midcentury British painter Stanley Spencer, his wife, and his lover would be received--unfairly, claimed Schama--as "yet another formulaic contribution to the flourishing genre of painter-as-prick."


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