Example sentences for: victorian

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

  • Across the Atlantic, Lord Roy Jenkins' biography of the Victorian prime minister was universally applauded.

  • Epitome of the town’s more peaceful side, the Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens south of the city center display flora representative of the region’s inhabitants: mayflower and pines for the Micmacs; iris and the vegetables the Acadians grew, with a reconstruction of their ingenious system of dykes and a typical Acadian cottage; an English rose arbor; and Victorian flower beds.

  • Much later, during the progressive first quarter of this century, pierced ears for women became utterly unfashionable, a sign of Victorian bondage as abhorrent as whalebone corsets and the double marital bed.

  • But the (factually correct) premise of Victorian morality was that one person's transgression, if unpunished, invites emulation.

  • 3Monogamy Victorian style.


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