Example sentences for: novelist

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

  • The famous sardine fisheries finally closed down in the 1940s as a result of over-fishing, but the waterfront district of timbered canneries, immortalized by the novelist John Steinbeck as “a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia,” has found a new lease on life today as a tourist attraction with souvenir shops, delightful cozy boutiques, and artists’ studios.

  • A gossipfest about the notorious novelist and gadabout.

  • "Apart from observing the unsurprising fact that color-blind weavers are skilled at distinguishing subtle tones, Dr. Sacks can do little more than give us an ordinary-if-well-written travel essay," says novelist D.M.

  • H erman Melville: At an anti-impeachment rally this week, the novelist Mary Gordon suggested that Clinton was in fact Billy Budd.

  • Critics delight in "one of the great literary hoaxes of the century" (David Lister, the Independent ), in which a best-selling British novelist tries to pass off his "biography" of a nonexistent painter as authentic.


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