Example sentences for: safire

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

  • Surprisingly, Safire did not explain how this works by providing the most famous example of the tactic: Nixon's knowingly taped Oval Office statement that yes, he could raise money to silence the Watergate burglars, "but it would be wrong."

  • Like clockword--I mean clockwork , of course--Bill Safire's books come down the pike, each inscribed with a friendly greeting from the man described as “the language maven.”

  • Funny, Clinton Reportedly Said the Same Thing: William Safire ( Meet the Press ) wows his fellow panelists with the news that he had bumped into Monica Lewinsky at a bar--well, actually, the Cosmos Club--this week.

  • Nobody--not William Safire, not the Oxford English Dictionary --has concretely pinned down the origin of the word nerd . One theory traces it to a throwaway passage in Dr. Seuss' lesser-known 1950 children's book If I Ran the Zoo . Another considers it a variation of the 1940s put-down nerts to you , as in "nuts to you."

  • asked the front-page headline in Monday's New York Times . "Diddled again," answered the headline over William Safire's column.


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