Example sentences for: versed

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

  • Convinced of the importance of consulting Hindu legal authorities in the original [ Encyc. Brit . 1963, 13, 140a], Jones, well versed in Sanskrit, became aware of the correspondences among Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Slavic, and Germanic forms, which led him to the conclusion that Sanskrit was another, older form of a parent language from which all had sprung.

  • And, as any one versed in organizational psychology or even experienced in managing a large organization knows, such transformations do not come easy, they are seldom painless, and they require the staff of the organization leading such a transformation to put themselves on the line in ways that often are unfamiliar and unpleasant.

  • (If any male vocalist is looking for an equally adroit album title encompassing both cigarettes and sexuality, may I suggest, at least for those versed in the divergences of British and American slang, Fag .) Incidentally, Wilde, in The Picture of Dorian Gray , writes, "A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure.

  • Ha'aretz said it understood why some Israelis felt they owed the Serbs a debt of gratitude for their tenacious opposition to the Nazis during World War II, but added: "A much-persecuted nation, well versed in pogroms, cannot stand on the side, watching an institutionalized process of exterminating civilians based on religion and ethnicity.

  • In particular, New Pru is--as s/he admits--not as well versed in macroeconomics as his/her predecessor.


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