Example sentences for: larkin

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

  • Look out for the Larkin House, at Jefferson and Calle Principal, home of the first (and only) United States Consul in the 1840s, as well as the Stevenson House, 530 Houston Street, where the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson lived for four months after his arrival in California in 1879.

  • Maggs is delightfully atmospheric and full of peel-away details, shit-rimmed cobblestones and stinking . The quaintly elaborate names--Percival Clarence Buckle, Mercy Larkin, Sophina Smith--are a lively match for Dickens' Uriah Heeps and Augustus Snodgrasses.

  • (One thinks of Philip Larkin's poem about a religion based on water: "And I should raise in the east/ A glass of water/ Where any-angled light/ Would congregate endlessly."

  • Under fuck up we have added the well-known opening lines to Philip Larkin's poem This be the Verse, the only use of fuck to be regularly found in dictionaries of quotations: They fuck you up, your mum and dad.

  • While Miller can't write like Larkin, his nostalgia project is a more responsible one.


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