Example sentences for: wilde

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

  • When André Gide revealed that Oscar Wilde had had sexual relations with a young Arab boy in Egypt, Wilde's friend Robert Sherard lamented: “Heavens!

  • Karenga, Kwanzaa's creator, has also written two books on the celebration, Kwanzaa: Origin, Concepts, Practice and The African American Celebration of Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community & Culture . And Anna Day Wilde describes how the holiday gained popularity in "Mainstreaming Kwanzaa," in Public Interest , No.

  • Wilde's combination of stylishness and tragedy lends itself perfectly to overcostumed, overwrought Merchant-Ivory-style drama.

  • Two weeks ago, The Judas Kiss , a play about Wilde's doomed love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, debuted on Broadway, starring Liam Neeson as Wilde.

  • The play recounts Wilde's downfall, says USA Today 's David Patrick Stearns, "with the inevitability and much of the monumentality of a Greek tragedy."


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