Example sentences for: thoreau

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

  • Here, Henry David Thoreau, philosopher, essayist, poet, and friend of Emerson, lived in a cabin from 1845 to 1847, and wrote Walden.

  • Here is Hollis Hall attended by Emerson and Thoreau, Massachusetts Hall attended by John and Samuel Adams, H. H. Richardson’s Sever Hall, and Charles Bulfinch’s Stoughton and University Halls.

  • In the 19th century it became a literary light when Ticknor and Fields, the publisher of Emerson, Longfellow, and Thoreau operated here from 1832 to 1865 and when the Atlantic Monthly was the most famous magazine of the day.

  • Its ideal is the individual in the state of nature, intimated by Henry David Thoreau’s retreat to Walden Pond.

  • As Prudie's hero Henry David Thoreau observed, "Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk."


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