Example sentences for: lidie

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

  • Lidie is tall, homely, a tomboy--and somewhat anachronistically aware of all the 19 th century clothing and marriage customs that infantilize women.

  • Here the story turns into a kind of absurd picaresque: Lidie, driven by rage at her loss, disguises herself as a boy reporter in hostile Missouri and sets out to find Thomas' killers.

  • Book -- The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton , by Jane Smiley;

  • In the New York Times Book Review Thomas Mallon faults Lidie Newton for "dutiful caricatures of white degeneracy and black nobility ...

  • Lidie equals Huck, and Lorna equals Jim--Lidie even has a mischievous young cousin who's a stand-in for Tom Sawyer--and the whole point of the book is to shine the harsh light of reality on Twain's irresponsible fantasy.


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