Example sentences for: rowling

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

  • Notice how Rowling structures the books in strict parallel centered around the school: First we get a few chapters of Harry at home with his awful muggle relatives, who lock him in the closet, starve him, and cower at the thought that he might perform magic (his frustration at not being allowed to is part of the amusement of this section).

  • Publishing the first books before she's written the later ones, Rowling hunts out bits and pieces from earlier on and puts them to new uses.

  • 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.

  • One of the neatest tricks Rowling pulls off is to make the narrative move backward and foreward at the same time: Part of the drama of each installment involves Harry's finding out something new about his parents' deaths, and about the world of Hogwarts in their time.

  • When I started Rowling's series, I found myself comparing them to Jill Murphy's out-of-print "Worst Witch" books, a series for slightly younger kids (7-to-11-year-olds), about a hapless student at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches.


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