Example sentences for: sons

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

  • The second of John Lennon's sons to trade on his father's name in launching a pop career.

  • His most recent novel, Intimacy , is a nakedly autobiographical exploration of a man's thoughts on the eve of his abandonment of his wife and two small sons for a younger woman.

  • To the common man, wars were just another hardship, taking sons away from the farm to fight, while the armies — French as much as foreign — ravaged the land or pillaged the towns.

  • After brief stints as a copy boy for the NYT in college and as an Army reporter in Vietnam, Gore took a job at the the Tennessean --which was then a popular stop-off for the idealistic sons of political figures (the sons of Robert Kennedy, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and John Sirica had worked there).

  • A 30,000-man unit called Saddam's Commandos , led by one of his sons, also snuffs out unrest.


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