Example sentences for: sons

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

  • William Hill has offered odds of 10-to-1 that Bill and Hillary Clinton would announce divorce proceedings during 1999, 20-to-1 that the controversial "Millennium Dome" would be scrapped, 100-to-1 that Prince Charles would marry his sons' former nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke, and 1 million-to-1 that the world would end in August.

  • On the military: "The sons of bitches are not interested in this country."

  • Although William was murdered in 1584, his sons continued his work, and in 1648 the Treaties of The Hague and Westphalia saw the creation of the independent State of the Netherlands, whose boundaries were very much as they are today.

  • They've seen corrupt governments, sadistic schoolmasters, domineering mothers who spoil their sons but train their daughters to be selfless clothes-washers, and feckless men whose only reason for living is to seduce women and then disappear.

  • Organisms pump out sons because whenever females are more plentiful, the genes of mothers and fathers who bear sons have a reproductive field day, and the mixture settles at 50-50.


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