Example sentences for: wasp

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

  • If a middle-class Polish girl like Martha can blossom into an affected, Breck-girl faux-WASP, you can too!

  • Both the wasp and its spider prey are put into rum with guinea pepper ( Aframomum melegueta ) on a Friday.

  • The original fount of preppiness has been reduced to deploying an army of image-makers to reclaim customers from faux WASP competitors such as Ralph Lauren.

  • WASP started off with a pejorative nuance, it seems to me, but has been accepted so smugly by white Anglo-Saxon Protestants that the term has been appropriated by some people it doesn't fit, for instance Americans of German or Irish descent who may be agnostics of Catholic background.

  • John F. Kennedy's election to the White House and the success of celebrities like Grace Kelly proved that the WASP establishment, which long impeded access to Irish-Americans, was crumbling.


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