Example sentences for: saxon

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

  • An impassioned politician as well as a fiery military leader, Riel won local Anglo-Saxon support for his proposed Manitoba Act guaranteeing equal French and English language rights in school and church.

  • Stirrup has been compounded from the Old English stige `ascent' + rāp .' Anglo-Saxon stirrups were made of rope and were probably used for ascending objects other than horses.

  • Until about 1150, Old English time was reckoned by nights, not by days, for the Anglo-Saxon language flourished in lands where nights were long and the days fleeting periods of light.

  • But the effect was the gradual displacement of Gaelic by the development of Scots English parallel with southern English (as the successors to the respective Anglian and Saxon mainstreams).

  • "That's the trouble with you Anglo-Saxon economists--you're too wrapped up in your theories.


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