Example sentences for: johnnie

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

  • Like Johnnie Cochran, Clinton's defenders are putting the prosecution on trial.

  • By overloading the proverb with little and old in What little Johnnie hasn't learnt, old John will not learn, the translator (here a traditore, indeed) has killed the clever implication inherent in the play on names, perhaps in a fumbled attempt to bear out his claim that Russian proverbs are relatively brief.

  • Among the black agents courting rookies are Puffy Combs, Master P, and Johnnie Cochran.

  • Literally, leaving out the tovo as redundant in English, this proverb means What Johnnie hasn't learnt, John won't learn.

  • Johnnie Cochran said he will assemble a dream team of lawyers to hold the New York police "accountable" for the death of an African street peddler . The victim, Amadou Diallo, died after plainclothes policemen fired 41 bullets at him in the vestibule of his apartment building, hitting him 19 times.


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