Example sentences for: waugh

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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • One could stop well short of anything as elaborate as the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie's old tag line ("King of Kings, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah") or the array of distinctions paraded by the young ruler in Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief (a proclamation begins, "We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Lord of Wanda, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University ..."

  • .. Iris Murdoch, William Golding, Anthony Powell, Ted Hughes, Roy Fuller, Kingsley Amis, Anita Brookner, Malcolm Muggeridge, Brigid Brophy, Sir John Gielgud, Sir Michael Hordern, Auberon Waugh and Lord Scarman.”


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