Example sentences for: historian

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

  • Writing in 1824, Ranke conjured a memorable image of the modern critical historian confronted by, and determined to derive order from, the boundless quantities of available source material:

  • Miller's training as an intellectual historian is the source of most of the strengths and weaknesses of Flowers in the Dustbin .

  • This fall another noteworthy volume on the apparatus of written language has been published-- The Footnote: A Curious History , by the Princeton University historian Anthony Grafton.

  • As one historian has written, a Jewish guidebook from the era included recipes for " 'Maccabean sandwiches' composed of either tuna fish or egg salad and shaped to resemble a bite-sized Maccabee warrior, or the 'Menorah fruit salad,' a composition of cream cheese and fruit that, when molded, resembled a menorah."

  • In Monday's National Post of Canada, historian Michael Bliss of the University of Toronto wrote a searing condemnation of the Kosovo war, predicting among other things that the Americans would never again agree to lead future wars by committee.


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