Example sentences for: saxon

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

  • till ( prep .) The forerunner of until . From Saxon tille to reach or come to the time of.

  • In this writing, legal means `pertaining to the law,' rather than `lawful'; layman means `non-lawyer' (including the feminine); he, him and his include the feminine; and Anglo-Saxon means `Old English.

  • 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.

  • The Tarzan and Carter stories can be viewed as experiments--take a member of the Anglo-Saxon ruling class, strip him of all his advantages, and put him in a radically different environment, in order that the innate superiority of his breed may be demonstrated.

  • When he was visiting Saxon Dresden at the height of the Prussian reaction in the 1820s, he surprised his students sitting at the table with him by ordering the most expensive champagne in Europe, Château Sillery.


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