Example sentences for: saxon

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

  • A poor man named John Cordeaux was brazen enough to suggest [May 27, 1893] that stoat is from the Anglo-Saxon steort , a tail.

  • In particular, he was suspicious of language reformers who wished to revive or fabricate Anglo-Saxon synonyms for Latinate words.

  • His name (= part of his imprint) appears in absurd Anglo-Saxon.

  • , to “Seventh century The Venerable Bede translated St John's Gospel into Anglo-Saxon.”

  • Ever since the Norman invasion, people have preferred to use the longer Latinate terms over the blunt Anglo-Saxon words: the general feeling, with some small basis, is that such diction shows a touch of class.


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