Example sentences for: lish

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

  • It is so common that many jokey and dismissive blends formed on - lish have almost become technical terms.

  • Carver never admitted to being Lish's creation, but he chafed and finally rebelled, forbidding Lish to edit heavily or rewrite anymore.

  • Lish's version:

  • When you read your New York Times Magazine this Sunday (or Saturday, if you live in New York), you will learn about a raging controversy (ok, minor dispute) in the literary world: Does former Knopf fiction editor Gordon Lish deserve credit for author Raymond Carver's success?

  • "I've wondered in my head why Lish did what he did," comments the poet Donald Hall, a friend of Carver's who objected strongly to Lish's edit of one story, "The Bath," and republished the original version as "A Small, Good Thing."


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