Example sentences for: world--and

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

  • He is invited to John F. Kennedy's inauguration, has a "Rothko room" installed in the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.--the first of several such rooms in museums around the world--and accepts a commission to decorate a chapel for the de Menil family in Houston (known as the Rothko Chapel).

  • It sounded better than the fancy new textbook one of my kids used last year to study the Middle Ages, which aspired to spend equal time on the non-Western world--and so ended up spending much too little time on anything.

  • "It is not wrong for the United States to say we don't believe in child labor, or forced labor, or the oppression of our brothers and sisters who work for a living around the world--and [that] we don't believe that growing the economy requires us to undermine the environment," said Clinton.

  • For a large part of the world--and not only the English-speaking world--Shakespeare remains the inexhaustible source of inspiration for writers, actors, directors, composers, historians, learned societies, linguists, drama schools (where, in America, he is honored more in the breach than the observance), films, academia, literary criticism, bibliographers, translators, painters, pilgrims, philosophers, and psychologists.


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