Example sentences for: wordsworth

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

  • We should still adore the child as the angelic innocent Blake and Wordsworth wrote about.

  • Will we, or our children, be talking their essays into microphones, composing peripatetically and out loud like Wordsworth "writing" his poems, or bosses dictating letters to secretaries in 1950s TV sitcoms?

  • Not at all contemporary, maybe it wasn't the simple-minded nonsense it seemed, maybe a parody of Wordsworth perpetrated by a disillusioned towel copy writer à la J.K. Stephens' celebrated parody of that poet: Two Voices are there: One is of the deep/And one is of an old half-witted sheep....

  • Asked the about the expression "Suffer fools gladly" (Corinthians 11:19), the first 10 people surveyed ventured a source with disarming speed: "Wordsworth," "Hamlet ," "Hamlet ," "Hamlet ," "Wordsworth," "Beowulf ," "Chaucer," "Macbeth ," "Herrick," and "Gerard Manly Hopkins."

  • One plan in particular — a proposal to send a railway line through the heart of the region — galvanized a small group of influential local men, including poet William Wordsworth, into action.


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