Example sentences for: milne

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

  • (The Brothers Grimm and A. A. Milne, author of Winnie the Pooh , dabble in that line of work too, but their output is noncompetitive--only one book to Machiavelli's and Shakespeare's several each.)

  • When Milne died in 1956, Dutton bought the dolls from his estate for $2,500.

  • But in reviewing the works of others, attention must be paid to such materials, and the Bibliography of Selected Sources and Dictionaries Consulted include only twenty-five titles under the former category (plus fifteen of Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey novels) and only ten under the latter, some of which are curious choices indeed: Robert Hunter's Universal Dictionary of the English Language, New York: Collier, 1897, which I have never heard of; Eric Partridge's Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English contains a great many errors and ought to be avoided by serious researchers; the author evidently chose not to wade through Johnson's Dictionary, relying instead on McAdam and Milne's A Modern Selection.

  • Pooh hero/Milne son Christopher Robin Milne expressed his satisfaction with Pooh's American home before his own death in 1995.

  • Although CVR board members considered giving the money as a loan, not a grant, their vote on the funding request -- taken after Milne and Ralphs left the meeting -- was unanimous.


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