Example sentences for: humphrey

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

  • 'I think this is a crock,' said Humphrey, a vegetable farmer for 30 years.

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

  • This was before Humphrey Bogart muddied the waters by calling his daughter Lesley after Lesley Howard.

  • 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.”

  • Everyone remembers the classic scence from Treasure of the Sierra Madre in which the banditos encounter that dark-minded prospector, Humphrey Bogart, in the rugged mountains of Mexico.


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