Example sentences for: povich

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

  • Sportswriting legend Shirley Povich of the WP died late last week at age 92 (he was still writing for the paper; his last column appeared the next day) and the papers have been full of his greatness.

  • 4. [EPISTOLA from Bernard Witlieb] The man's man was Shirley Povich, not Povish.

  • One wonderful line quoted by the Post and the NYT is his lead from a 1960 column, when Povich was campaigning hard to have the Washington football team break the color line: "Jim Brown, born ineligible to play for the Redskins, integrated their end zone three times yesterday."

  • Or "even to think about" it, as Newsday 's Elaine S. Povich wrote Aug. 12, "because to do so would unearth the demons that he has lived with--and mostly hidden from the public--for the majority of his 73 years."


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