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Example sentences for: jakes
How can you use “jakes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Jakes, who presides over a Dallas-based empire of books, tapes, and TV shows, wants to "heal" not just homosexuals, but all "men who are feminine in their mannerisms."
Mailer was not a critic of Southern literature, but he privately wondered whether posterity might not judge John Jakes a better novelist than Faulkner, sources close to Mailer tell Mailer.
My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him.
, in the chapter on “Bodily Effluvia”) where, for example, john, jakes, bog, crapper are said to “tend to the dysphemistic,” whatever that means.
Its exact origin is unascertained, but it is likely to have been a variant of jakes (with the indefinite article preceding it).
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