Example sentences for: steinbeck

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

  • The famous sardine fisheries finally closed down in the 1940s as a result of over-fishing, but the waterfront district of timbered canneries, immortalized by the novelist John Steinbeck as “a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia,” has found a new lease on life today as a tourist attraction with souvenir shops, delightful cozy boutiques, and artists’ studios.

  • Rand has proved to be a listserv favorite, though John Steinbeck's Cannery Row and Martin Amis' The Information have also garnered mentions.

  • He missed the mark a few times--John Steinbeck and Orson Welles didn't fellow-travel very far.

  • washing hands or touching car doors, it gave mefreedom with walls so I could handle bulging and sagging when I had to; and one of the summers I read Steinbeck and made love--in the bedroom--

  • She boldly marched into a bookstore and asked the salesclerk for a copy each of Hemingway's The Sun Come Up Again and Throw Away the Gun and Steinbeck's The Angry Grape . Is there a term for the errors that creep in while translating a passage back into the original tongue?


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