Example sentences for: odes

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

  • The resurgence of Nicaragua's movie theaters, which practically croaked when the Sandinistas made them show an endless parade of odes to Soviet industrial workers.

  • Gladstone, in the midst of his political career, produced a three-volume study of Homer, two long books on Church and State, and a new translation of Horace's Odes ."

  • Perhaps it was formed originaly as a macaronic phrase by students, because of its meter; its earliest OED citation is in the 16th century, when the study of Horace would undoubtedly have been part of a scholar's curriculum (including the memorizing of many of the odes).

  • Keats is famous for his odes, which are taken to be celebrations; but they are not.

  • His greatest poems, most of them written in that same year, are elegies wrapped as odes.


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