Example sentences for: mccourt

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

  • Consider Frank McCourt, who has become a spokesman for the now-controversial view that teachers should have more leeway in the classroom, not less.

  • In a cover book excerpt, Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt recounts his first year as a public-school teacher.

  • The expectations for McCourt's follow-up to the best-selling Angela's Ashes were high, and critics are uniformly disappointed: It "lacks the drama, the magic, the gentleness, the lilt of the first book" (Deirdre Donahue, USA Today ). They're quick to point out that 'Tis , which picks up McCourt's life at age 19, once he has left Ireland for America, is not a bad book, it's just not as good as the first.

  • McCourt captured the imagination of his rambunctious class by having them transcribe essays written by kids a generation earlier.

  • McCourt's own story indicates that they could not.


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