Example sentences for: putnam

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

  • The Nation 's Katha Pollitt takes Putnam's very example, the shift from league bowling to ad hoc bowling, and suggests that "[that] story could be told as one of happy progress from a drink-sodden night of spouse-avoidance with the same old faces from work to temperate and spontaneous fun with one's intimate friends and family."

  • It recently received powerful empirical support from Robert Putnam, whose 1993 book, Making Democracy Work , documented that northern Italy is civil-society rich and southern Italy, civil-society poor.

  • In "Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital," a now-legendary article written in 1995, Harvard's Robert Putnam pointed out that league bowling in America has been declining for decades, while individual bowling is on the rise.

  • Bradley will reply with long passages from Cornel West, Hugh Prather, Robert Putnam, and Khalil Gibran.

  • VandeHei gives the game away when he complains that Davis is also trying to recruit such obvious low-lifes as "Adam Putnam, a 25-year-old state representative" in Florida.


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