Example sentences for: updike

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

  • Updike's hero, Ben, a 66-year-old retired financial manager, is suddenly transposed across the ages to ancient Egypt, then to the time of Jesus, then to medieval Ireland.

  • Book -- Bech at Bay: A Quasi-Novel , by John Updike.

  • In the New Republic , Robert Boyers condemns John Updike for setting his sci-fi novel Toward the End of Time in the aftermath of a horrific conflagration.

  • John Updike's novel S. has two or three brief business letters in likewise untranslated French.

  • John Updike is at bottom a religious novelist, but when you try to identify what exactly his bottom-most religious beliefs may be, the whole murky lot of them playfully slither away--which gives his writing a touch of theological suspense.


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