Example sentences for: hurston

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

  • He continued as an editor of Transition magazine; the Black Periodical Literature Project; the Zora Neale Hurston Library series; the 30-volume African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940 ; and the 2 million word Encyclopedia Africana . Nominally, at least, he sat on the board of editors of 29 other journals and on 82 advisory committees for museums, theaters, institutes, literary prizes, and universities.

  • Hurston wrote that she was too busy eating well and sharpening her oyster knife to feel victimized by racism.

  • By the 1960s, even the memory of flourishing towns like Hurston's Eatonville had been erased, replaced by crime-ridden ghettoes that '60s radicals tried to palm off as the only legitimate black experience.

  • Her novels are an archaeology of strong black communities like the ones she and Hurston were born into.

  • According to those who edited the Dictionary , Gates read entries only just before they were sent to press, then looked closely only at items within his area of expertise, such as the Harlem Renaissance and Hurston.


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