Example sentences for: oliver

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

  • 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.

  • It emerged at the time of World War I, and the principal figures in its creation--Learned Hand, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and Louis Brandeis--were not classical liberals; they were progressives.

  • "Anything that costs more than 5 cents is prohibitive," says Head Librarian Rebecca Oliver.

  • Granted, this is a smart, provocative movie, with a performance from Oliver Platt that is truly off-tha-hook, a film reflective of Beatty's decades-long concerns over the corruption of government by money.

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


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