Example sentences for: humphrey

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

  • There are traditional cowboys and tough guys on the list, but the former (as in Stagecoach , 1939, and The Searchers , 1956) is limited mostly to John Wayne, and the latter (as in The Maltese Falcon , 1941) to Humphrey Bogart; and you get the sense these films were chosen more out of nostalgia for their stars than for their dramatic power.

  • Well, actually Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn did co-star in The African Queen , but few other equally ranked pairs ever worked together.

  • His savage, profane descriptions of Nixon, his mockery of Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey, his characterization of any enemy as a "Nazi" or "the fourth Reich" or "the sixth Reich" enlivened (and, yes, debased) political debate.

  • Thus Abigail to Nab, Ambrose to Nam, Anne to Nan or Nancy, Edward to Ned, Eleanor or Helen to Nell, Humphrey to Nump , Isaac to Nykin, Isabel to Nib, Obadiah to Nobs , and Oliver to Noll .

  • Here are some classics: Smollett's novel is Humphry Clinker (1771), not “Humphrey”; Richardson's is Clarissa Harlowe (1748), not “Harlow”; Defoe's is Robinson Crusoe (1719), not “Cruso”; Rider Haggard's is Allan Quatermain (1887), not “Quartermain” or “Quatermaine.”


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