Example sentences for: proverbial

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

  • Marsh Harbour, in the center of Great Abaco Island, is the proverbial heart of the Abacos.

  • Proverbial truth is nothing if not many-sided, experience winning out over language for its own sake.

  • I got a kick out of Another City, Not My Own . I devoured it in the proverbial single sitting.

  • When I was young, we took family vacations near Lake Huron, where pronunciation was subject to the same lack of certainty, providing the potential for some proverbial southwestern Ontario jocularity.

  • If economy with the truth is one proverbial option——Never tell the truth unless you have one foot in the stirrup—— as a general policy that is not without dangers also: The rope of untruth is short.


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