Example sentences for: royko

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

  • When Richard J. Daley was alive and mayor of Chicago, no one gave him a harder time than Mike Royko did.

  • The mayor's abuse of power didn't bother those who had lived through far worse: "The people who came here in Daley's lifetime were accustomed to someone wielding power like a club, be it a czar, emperor, king, or rural sheriff," Royko noted.

  • Daley's abuse of the English language didn't offend people who weren't "that far removed from parents and grandparents who knew only bits and pieces of the language," Royko wrote.

  • Mike Barnicle, a second-rate Roykoesque columnist, was fired from the Boston Globe for blending fiction and fact in a way that Royko did routinely.

  • Nor is it possible for a newspaper writer now to be as blunt as Royko was.


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