Example sentences for: saxon

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

  • Since Anglo-Saxon times, the word has gone through a process of generalization, whereby it has taken on a wider range of meaning.

  • The Celtic tongue, later to be overwhelmed by Anglo-Saxon, contained only a few Latin words, most of them place names and none of legal import, outlived the occupation.

  • Malcolm II’s own grandson, Malcolm Canmore (1058–1093), often visited Edinburgh with his wife Margaret, a Saxon princess.

  • To an Anglo-Saxon economist, France's current problems do not seem particularly mysterious.

  • 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.


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