Example sentences for: montagu

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

  • When it was used, it was used, as Ashley Montagu said, "sotto voce , like a smuggler cautiously making his way across a forbidden frontier."

  • The anthropologist Ashley Montagu, whose Anatomy of Swearing , published in 1967, is the definitive modern take on the subject, saw profanity as a safety valve rather than a stimulant, a verbal substitute for physical aggression.

  • When someone swears, Montagu wrote, "potentially noxious energy is converted into a form that renders it comparatively innocuous."


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