Example sentences for: waugh

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

  • 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 ..."

  • "The Beast stands for strong, mutually antagonistic governments everywhere," says the press magnate, Lord Copper, in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop . That is a pretty good attitude to have about domestic politics.

  • Waugh's 1930s novels, such as Vile Bodies and Black Mischief , are wicked fun in the strict sense.

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

  • 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.


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