Example sentences for: hooch

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

  • At a time when Holland was experiencing a surfeit of prosperity--what Simon Schama calls its "embarrassment of riches"--de Hooch was apparently left out in the cold.

  • The merchants at first tried the soft sell, offering cloth, wine, and necklaces for ivory and gold, but the traders of Calicut were insulted at being taken for “natives” who could be bought with cheap hooch and glass baubles.

  • In Swann's Way , Marcel Proust compared the little phrase of the composer Vinteuil, the "national anthem" of Swann's love for Odette, to one of "those interiors by Pieter de Hooch which are deepened by the narrow frame of a half-opened door, in the far distance, of a different color, velvety with the radiance of some intervening light."

  • De Hooch, in marked contrast to Vermeer, is a painter of this world, with all its social precariousness and unavoidable melancholy.

  • The short stay in Delft resulted in de Hooch's greatest paintings, and these dominate the Hartford show.


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