Example sentences for: saxons

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

  • 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.

  • Indeed, the earlier Anglo-Saxons had little more luck with the voodoo h ; in a brief article in an 1888 issue of Notes and Queries , Prof. Skeat wrote: Only last week, I found ors for hors horse in an unedited A-S manuscript.

  • 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.

  • Caesar drew Gaul’s northeastern frontier at the Rhine, taking in present-day Belgium, and warned that the Ger­man­ic tribes across the river — the Franks (after whom France is named), Alamans, and Saxons — would always threaten the security of the frontier.

  • The Anglo-Saxons did not allow the duplication of personal names within a group.


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