Example sentences for: weems

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

  • Yet, rumors and “common knowledge,” however inaccurate, are sometimes a misinterpretation of an event that actually occurred and, therefore, can be traced to a fact, even though distorted; the best that can be wished for is to turn up something that might have given rise to the story (like the identification of the Parson Weems tale about George Washington's honesty and the cherry tree).

  • But Gore Vidal said the mixing of fact with fantasy was appropriate for a president "whose life owed so little to Parson Weems and so much to Pirandello."

  • I got a strange sort of corroboration from my good friend Rosy McHargue, who is now pushing eighty-seven years and has spent most of his life playing clarinet and sax with some of the best jazzbands—Benny Goodman, Red Nichols, Ted Weems, and a slew of others.


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