Example sentences for: kipling

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

  • (Compare this with Kipling's “Where the old Flotilla lay” where lay is the past tense of lie .)

  • In Kipling's The Light That Failed (Chapter XIII), Torpenhow urges Dick to attend a party that night, “We shall be half screwed before the morning,” is his dismal sales pitch to Dick.

  • “Such a land,” said Rudyard Kipling in 1908, “is good for an energetic man.

  • I'd be interested to see if you could apply that technique (and the arrangements) to older material such as Victor Herbert's 1905 nod to Kipling, "(A Woman Is Only a Woman) But a Good Cigar Is a Smoke"--though that's probably an unlikely sentiment for kd lang.

  • After anesthesia was introduced in the U.S. in 1844, the phrase came flguratively to mean to `deal with a bad situation resolutely,' as in Rudyard Kipling's lines “Bite the bullet, old man,/ And don't let them think you're afraid.”


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