Example sentences for: von

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

  • decreased threshold to paw withdrawal following probing with non-noxious mechanical stimuli) consisted of measuring the withdrawal threshold of the paw ipsilateral to the site of nerve injury in response to probing with a series of calibrated von Frey filaments.

  • He had his hands full fielding telephone calls from them during WWII, when newscasters were daily faced with the problems of how to pronounce the names of people and places like von Ribbentrop, Sidi Barani, Ploesti , and Irriwaddy . Little has changed, but Cabell is long gone, and newscasters (or broadcasting networks), if they want to learn how to pronounce a name properly can usually find out by listening to BBC World Service.

  • Just as the Daily Worker and New Masses , socialist papers from the 1930s, were peppered with citations of Marx and Engels, Educational Liberator is peppered with references to their libertarian equivalents--Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises.

  • Sun Tzu is alleged to have written The Art of War some 2,500 years ago--so he isn't personally plying the seminar circuit, but his translators and interpreters are, along with those promoting other military-history hall of famers like Attila the Hun, Karl Von Clausewitz, and the 17 th -century samurai who wrote A Book of Five Rings.

  • Americans, however, had long been saying that something stemmed from something else, `was descended from or caused by it,' exactly in the sense of the German stammen von .


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