Example sentences for: humphrey

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

  • Few people know Cagney's performances as intimately as they know the high points of the performances of Humphrey Bogart or Jimmy Stewart or Cary Grant.

  • 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 .

  • Even RP aficionados will swoon over the old photos and footage of not only Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, and Joey (who does not make an appearance until hour three), but also of such silver-screen notables as Ava Gardner, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Lana Turner, Clark Gable, and Montgomery Clift.

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


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