Example sentences for: swede

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

  • There are passages where Roth, describing the rural New Jersey landscape from within the Swede's benign imagination, produces a fine, sugary lyricism that is not more than 5 percent ironic--a lyricism of white pasture fences and rolling hay fields and the Swede pretending to be Johnny Appleseed, tossing his imaginary seed.

  • “That Swede church” isn't quite the same as “That Swedish church.”

  • About the Swede, Roth's Zuckerman writes, "Something had turned him into a human platitude."

  • I could cite a dozen other tones--of pleading impatience, of emotional exhaustion, of inveigling desperation, and so forth--every possible reaction to the Swede and his predicament.

  • Then again, there are passages of dark fury--the outraged indignation of the Swede's wised-up brother, Jerry the Miami heart surgeon, who can't stand the innocence any longer, and whose drumbeat imprecations achieve a kind of poetry:


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