Example sentences for: xvi

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

  • I was surprised and dismayed at the content of the lead article in VERBATIM, “The Germanization of American English” [XVI,4].

  • Upon reading Adrian Room's “Don't Get Your Titles in a Twist” [XVI, 3], I was happily surprised to see reference made to the tiny, misspelled, but spellbinding novel by Daisy Ashford, The Young Visiters . I have been an ardent admirer of “Miss Daisy” ever since 1928, when I had the good fortune to be cast in a dramatization of her novel, presented at the Strand Theatre, London, in January of that year.

  • An arresting one occurs in A Passage to India (Chapter XXI) in which Forster describes a small building as “a flimsy and frivolous erection,” while in The Mayor of Casterbridge (Chapter XVI) the Mayor himself “beheld the unattractive exterior of Farfrae's erection.”

  • XVI.

  • As an addendum to Milton Horowitz's letter [XVI,2] about the depiction of Moses with horns, I want to come to the defense of St. Jerome.


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