Example sentences for: rowling

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

  • Rowling's phenomenally popular Harry Potter books will recognize the Sorting Hat as a magical wizard's hat, pointed and "patched and frayed and extremely dirty," that assigns new students at Hogwarts, the boarding school for aspiring wizards, to one of four houses--Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin.

  • I'm impressed with how effortlessly Rowling balances the genre requirements of predictability--Harry will prevail, the school year will end, Voldemort will be foiled (but only temporarily!)--and surprise.

  • The fact that each book so far allows him a greater measure of fallibility--and that some characters seem to slip and slide in the twilight zone between benign and malevolent wizardry--suggests that Rowling may be aware of these possibilities.

  • (I hope Murphy's books will fly back into print on Rowling's robe-tails.)

  • I'll stop, but it's testimony to the fertility of Rowling's imagination that these seem like plausible and interesting questions, and ones I bet she'd have answers to.


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