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How can you use “milton” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
I cannot resist the temptation to comment on Israel Wilenitz's comment in his EPISTOLA [XXIII,1,24] about my EPISTOLA [XXII,2,10] in response to Milton Horowitz's A Discouraging Word [OBITER DICTA, XXII,1,13].
But once the idea of a gay subtext has been planted, Louie the Lilac (as played by Milton Berle) isn't just a villain who likes to wear purple.
--John Milton, Paradise Lost
Early modern English used car poetically for the chariots of the sun and planets, as in Milton's image of a maritime sunset in Comus: And the gilded car of day / His glowing axle doth allay / In the steep Atlantic stream.
One of the beauties of the Oxford English Dictionary (and of, say, A Grammar of the English Language , by George O. Curme) is that users are comforted by quotations from sources that are acknowledged paragons of English usage, writers like Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens, Scott, etc., even Hemingway.