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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.