Example sentences for: horace

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

  • ' It occurs in Horace's Ode “To Virgil” [Book iv, Ode 12]:

  • Savor that word, "jackleg," a quarter-second visitation by the ghost of Horace Greeley or someone like him.

  • I suppose it is possible that Valentinus repeated Horace's metaphor in different, more dramatic terms a hundred years later.

  • Until I read Pagel's The Gnostic Gospels I recalled the expression the naked truth as having derived from an old Roman fable (perhaps from Horace, around 50 B.C.) about Truth and Falsehood emerging from a swim together, Falsehood stealing Truth's clothers.

  • Some other Johnnies neglected by quiz participants--Johnny Angel (Shelley Fabares), Johnny One Note (Rodgers and Hart), Johnny Too Bad (a swell song from The Harder They Come ), and this line of dialogue from the 1959 racially charged English murder mystery Sapphire , spoken, if I recall correctly, by Horace Big Cigar (Robert Adams): "We got plenty Johnnies, boss."


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