Example sentences for: percy

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

  • Years later, reading Walker Percy's superb essays on race and civil rights, I had it spelled out for me: The South, at least the white South before integration, was one big kinship lodge.

  • And I think (I hope) he still may be headed there: the great, corrupting sin in this moral universe seems to be ambition, which Percy clearly possesses.

  • The patronymics of powerful tribes such as Howard, Clarence, Cecil, Percy, Douglas, Bruce, Tudor , and Stuart are all seen as masculine.

  • Master P, a k a Percy Miller, reigns as king of rap.

  • Kruger and Dunning's finding also calls to mind the quotation from Soren Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death that serves as the epigraph to Walker Percy's novel The Moviegoer : "[T]he specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair."


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