Example sentences for: oliver

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

  • The popular use of the name in the US in the 1870s must have been in honor of Oliver Otis Howard (1830-1909), since the surnames of Civil War officers were often used in baptism.

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes thought that all people could be classified according to whether they were psychologically "internal" or "external."

  • lowing Has no reference to height or the lack of it, but is the sound commonly made by Oliver Goldsmith's herd.

  • In 1649, Ireland’s most hated conqueror, Oliver Cromwell, arrived in Dublin.

  • Those inside the administration who were troubled by the constitutional implications of the CDA rationalized their cop out by saying that the law was sure to be overturned anyway--as indeed it was, in a 3-0 decision that gave three Philadelphia judges a welcome opportunity to sound like Oliver Wendell Holmes.


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