Example sentences for: mitford

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

  • Graham's aptly named book crosscuts between the engrossing social history of her life and times--populated by the likes of Marie Curie, Edward Steichen, Auguste Rodin, Thomas Mann, Bernard Baruch, Walter Lippmann, FDR, Truman Capote, LBJ, Jessica Mitford, Scotty Reston, Emperor Hirohito, Bill and Babe Paley, and Richard Nixon--and her agonizing personal history.

  • Beautiful and very "U," as Nancy Mitford would say, but almost U in that hounds and blood sausage way.

  • Certainly Nancy Mitford's mother was so called, and in the 18th century Sid was even a generic term for girl.

  • The misinformation begins in the introduction [v], where the author acknowledges among his sources Mitford M. Mathews' The American Dialect Dictionary and A Dictionary of Americanisms .


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