Example sentences for: nathaniel

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

  • According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, who met Abraham Lincoln in March of 1862, one year into the Civil War, Lincoln looked like a country schoolmaster: He was "about the homeliest man I ever saw."

  • If a work is "about" "abandon, irrationality, and ecstatic release," but its execution displays "measure, reason, and control" --one might place any number of baroque operas in this category, for instance, or Nathaniel Hawthorne, for that matter.

  • Thus Anthony to Tony, Arthur to Art, Bartholomew to Bart or Bat , Catherine to Kate or Cat or Kitty, Dorothy to Dot (and Dickens's Little Dorrit ), Elizabeth to Betty or Bet (whence Betsy and Bessie ), Martha to Martie or Mattie , Matthew to Matt, Nathaniel to Nat or Nate, Theodore to Ted, Theresa to Tess or Tracy, and Thomas to Tom .

  • The first was in Northern Georgia Sketches , by Will Nathaniel Harben.

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne is a Matisse.


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