Example sentences for: vauxhall

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

  • What happened was this: Vauxhall Gardens were a famous London pleasure ground and “place of dalliance,” opened in 1660 (and known until 1785 as New Spring Gardens).

  • On the other hand, the V, au -sound, and x in Vauxhall are satisfactorily represented by the VOKS sequence so that the etymology given by Bryson appears to be preferable.

  • They were named for their location in Vauxhall, south of the Thames.

  • Bill Bryson's enjoyable “English Know-how, No Problem” (Spring 1991) states that the Russian word for railroad station vagzal comes from Vauxhall in London.

  • The London Vauxhall Gardens closed in 1859, but the Russian word for `railway station' has preserved their name.


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