Example sentences for: victorians

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

  • His masterwork was Eminent Victorians , a collection of brief revisionist essays about great men and women of the 19th century that contributed no new facts but rather a mocking spin on existing ones.

  • The pathetic state of international disaster relief--arguably the United Nations is better at peacekeeping , which isn't saying much--calls to mind Lytton Strachey's description, in Eminent Victorians , of the anarchy with which Florence Nightingale was confronted when she set out to help wounded British soldiers in Crimea.

  • Four-million dollar Victorians sell in a day.

  • He wants to maintain the tidy and comfortable belief, beloved by Victorians of all epochs, that thrift is always a virtue.

  • Eager to show concern for the right kind of people and to make it clear that he won't shed a tear (or spend a dime) on the--you know--bad people, Al Gore and his followers have been promiscuous with the phrase "America's Working Families," Gore's version of the Victorians' "deserving poor."


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