Example sentences for: mumford

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

  • Even her puffy cheeks are eloquent: They made me think of Mumford as the home of the psychological mumps.

  • whip over the ground - A character in Robert Mumford's 1770 play, The Candidate , observed, “You are determined to whip over the ground.”

  • Mumford

  • In his book, Jacoby deplores what he characterizes as a sort of fall, from the Edenic condition of what he calls "classical American intellectuals" born at the turn of the century--Lewis Mumford, Dwight Macdonald, and, inevitably, Edmund Wilson--to the generation born after World War II, whose intellectuals, he claims, have all retreated into academia, where they have lost themselves in a thicket of specialized professional jargon.

  • disteress - A character in Robert Mumford's play, The Candidate , refers to “a very disteress motive.”


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