Example sentences for: quill

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

  • Anointing Miss Manners a deep-thinking critic of 1960s liberation and license, he made her sound like a fellow Tory pundit, only in taffeta: Her quill quivered on behalf of the same neat, elite Western standards that he with his fountain pen defended on the editorial page.

  • Steiner opens the collection with "The Uncommon Reader," a tour-de-force meditation on Jean-Siméon Chardin's painting Le Philosophe lisant , which becomes, through attentive reading of details--"his folio, his hourglass, his incised medallions, his ready quill"--an emblem for the vanishing culture of book and reader.

  • "Our federalism requires that Congress treat the states in a manner consistent with their status as residuary sovereigns," he wrote, with a quill pen dipped in the blood of Thomas Jefferson, or maybe it was a word processor.

  • Gyles Brandreth, The Joy of Lex, Quill, New York, 1983.

  • Supreme Court case Quill vs.


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