Example sentences for: putnam

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

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

  • 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.

  • Part of the reason that Putnam's article resonated so strongly outside elite circles-- People magazine profiled him in a bowling alley--is that in using the example of bowling, that staple of 1950s, Putnam touched on a powerful chord of nostalgia for the America of that golden decade.

  • 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.

  • McNelly, W. E., The Dune Encyclopedia, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1984.


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