Example sentences for: rosten

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

  • In his delightful study, The Joys of Yiddish (McGraw-Hill 1968), Leo Rosten offers two classic definitions.

  • oy not so much a word as an entire vocabulary, as Rosten observes: “can express any emotion, from trivial delight to the blackest woe.”

  • To be sure, as it was fiction, Rosten exaggerated a bit, but the real-life models were then extant, and I can vouch for at least one from my own experience.

  • What's next--a "Column One" about Leo Rosten and the history of "schmucko"?

  • Rosten's articles were good-humored, and there was no intimation of negative or hostile feeling toward an ethnic minority.


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