Example sentences for: sherry

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

  • In all of them, scenes of repressive formality (hoary English actors sipping sherry in drawing rooms) would be shattered by scenes of Dionysian release (Dracula or some other fanged entity swooping down in an animalistic frenzy), and an aristocratic figure of both science and Christian faith--usually the crisply self-satisfied Peter Cushing--would show up to lecture the frightened villagers and pound a stake through the heaving bosom of some temptress.

  • Book-- Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage , by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew, with Annette Lawrence Drew;

  • Locals of all ages, from senior citizens to high-school kids donning Metallica T-shirts, crowd into 18th-century taverns to sip sherry or vino tinto drawn from old wooden barrels, and to munch on morsels of tortilla española.

  • Commenting on Yardeni's Y2K Chicken Little stance a little over a year ago to reporter Eric Reguly of the Toronto Globe and Mail , Sherry Cooper, chief economist at Nesbitt Burns (and, according to Reguly, "no slouch in the self-promotion department herself"), said, "It's a good gamble on his part.

  • I fear that Dr. Richards did not have us in mind when he set to work, for he omitted to include such words as tomato, bathroom, cutlet, cauliflower , and railway station . Yet let no one say he was not a mundane man, for he gives us the Welsh for port, sherry, whisky, brandy, burgundy, claret , and even Rhenish wine . And do you know that there are ten words in Welsh for fashion ? But none, apparently, for tomato, bathroom, cutlet , etc.


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