Example sentences for: lincolnesque

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

  • --Lincolnesque: "Size matters to some of the people all of the time and to all of the people some of the time, but not to all of the people all of the time."

  • The Post mentions a letter of Lincolnesque proportions displayed at the library that Bush wrote to his children during the run-up to Desert Storm.

  • You don't have to buy into Spielberg's Lincolnesque pieties in Saving Private Ryan to believe that there's a difference between World War II and Vietnam (or, for that matter, World War II and the invasion of Grenada or our spats with Iraq).

  • Marshall (Harve Presnell, sounding like Bob Dole) has ordered it out of a Lincolnesque compassion for all the families ripped apart by war.


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