Example sentences for: saxon

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

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • One regrets the inevitable parting with words that have served us since Anglo-Saxon times and were here before King Alfred.

  • WASP started off with a pejorative nuance, it seems to me, but has been accepted so smugly by white Anglo-Saxon Protestants that the term has been appropriated by some people it doesn't fit, for instance Americans of German or Irish descent who may be agnostics of Catholic background.

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


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