Example sentences for: penguin

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

  • In 1912, for the sake of a few emperor penguin eggs, Apsley Cherry-Garrard and two members of Scott's ill-fated polar expedition endured what Cherry-Garrard called “extremity of suffering” from which only “madness or death may give relief.”

  • I did not receive a review copy of the Penguin edition.

  • Hendrickson is a poet and a productive author of books on language, among them Literary Life and Other Curiosities (Viking, 1981), American Talk (Viking, 1986; Penguin, 1987), and the Facts On File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origin (FOF, 1987), the last of which was favorably reviewed in VERBATIM [XV, 4,27].

  • I, however, am partial to Hello Kitty's rival, the penguin Bad Badtz-maru, who wants to be boss of everything.

  • This book appeared originally under the title, The Oxter English Dictionary (Facts On File, 1984), then as The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Words (Penguin, (1986).


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