Example sentences for: muggle

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

  • I was impressed with her technique for interweaving her magical world with Muggle life.

  • Our dear colleague Chatterbox, that estimable muggle, thinks he might, but for other reasons, namely that the Potter books take a benign view of paganism, magic, witchcraft, and other things that scare Christian fundamentalists.

  • Notice how Rowling structures the books in strict parallel centered around the school: First we get a few chapters of Harry at home with his awful muggle relatives, who lock him in the closet, starve him, and cower at the thought that he might perform magic (his frustration at not being allowed to is part of the amusement of this section).

  • That's an interesting idea--Rowling could bring in a young muggle hero.

  • In an earlier posting you speculated that our enthusiasm for Harry Potter may arise from our anxiety about technology, and it's striking (this is something my wife called to my attention after she read the first two books) how technologically underdeveloped the muggle world is in these books, in particular with respect to information technology.


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