Example sentences for: waugh

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

  • I wrote a note to Alexander Chancellor, who was then the editor (and who now writes "International Papers" for Slate ), and asked how Waugh knew that it was a "filthy kosher breakfast," unless it was filth recognizing filth.

  • Female until the 17th century, it became a surname and was then widely, but not exclusively used for boys, generally of the upper or professional classes: Evelyn Baring the banker; Evelyn Henderson, brother of a 1930s' British ambassador, and, most famously, Evelyn Waugh.

  • References Campa 1934; Chabran and Chabran 1996; Espinosa 1985; Heisley and -MacGregor-Villarreal 1991; Ortega 1973; Silverthorne 1990; Sommers 1995; Steele 1992; Verti 1993; Vigil 1998; Waugh 1955

  • In Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited , Lord Sebastian Flyte turns the pages of the News of the World and sighs, "Another naughty Scoutmaster."

  • Yet a number of years ago, Auberon Waugh (familiarly called Bron, as the British are wont to do with public figures), the son of Evelyn Waugh, had a column in The Spectator in which he remarked: "We are all familiar with being in strange places and not knowing exactly where we are.


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