Example sentences for: oates

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

  • leisure (which is now relatively less expensive), work less, and lower taxable income (Parry and Oates, 2000).

  • For Oates' pretensions--his impassioned defense of abused children; his overassiduous note-taking; his obsessions with criminality, mesmerism, and his wife's sister--parrot Dickens' own well-documented preoccupations.

  • In 1991, the American Historical Association criticized Oates for not adequately footnoting his use of Thomas' book.

  • The New York Times Book Review declares it one of the year's "ten best books," and Joyce Carol Oates, writing in The New Yorker (for which Updike often writes), calls it "the most inventive of his myriad fiction.

  • Through them--plus a cache of invisible-ink letters Maggs writes to Phipps in order to acquaint the protégé with his protector--we look into Maggs' tortured soul, and witness an Oates in all but tumescent pursuit of Maggs' life story, which he will exploit for his next best seller.


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