Example sentences for: saxons

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

  • But the speech of the Anglo-Saxons themselves had brought to England a sprinkling of Latin words picked up in their trade with the Romans.

  • When the Anglo-Saxons wanted a word to express the activity of traveling in a ship powered by wind in sails, they saved themselves a lot of breath by forming the verb sail .

  • So, golfers, the next time you are in Ireland or Scotland, ponder why the Gaels used such combustible terms for heather and eschewed the features like bells and crosses that impressed themselves on Anglo-Saxons.

  • Even during the Second World War, when you would have expected the Anglo-Saxons to react allergically to Germanisms, they continued to infiltrate the language.

  • But then, half a loaf to the Anglo-Saxons was only half , while a whole one was a half .


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