Example sentences for: pepys

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

  • When Pepys writes mad, usually he means angry, just as Americans do today: “..

  • a trim, muscular type in a TV commercial might exclaim, sounding rather like Pepys when he wrote over three centuries ago, “Dined with Mr. Stephens.

  • For a mechanical and therefore objective lexical comparison I did a spelling check with my Q&A software on the first two paragraphs of Time's August 7, 1989, cover story on anchor woman Diane Sawyer and on the slightly longer first entry in Pepys's Diary , dated January 1, 1660.

  • [Reference throughout this essay is to The Diary of Samuel Pepys , edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1970.

  • Despite such interesting differences as are noted above, the language of Pepys's journal, however dated, is not generically unlike what we might expect to find in a secret journal kept by a yuppie bureaucrat of our times.


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