Example sentences for: xxiii
How can you use “xxiii” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
To Ms. Flanders' brief list of Foreign Treasures [XXIII,1] I would like to add one of my late father's French favorites, La moutarde m'est montée en nez , I lost my temper (lit. the mustard ascended into my nose).
In OBITER DICTA [XXIII,3,16] Tony Hall writes... the square of 5.5 is not a simple piece of mental arithmetic.
In More Foreign Treasures [XXIII,1,13], die öffentliche Hand (singular, not plural) denotes the state and the municipalities in their function as administrators and dispensers of taxes and public funds.
Regarding Mr. Chris Bayliss's enquiry [XXIII,2,17], I give below the Alphabet he asked for:
But sainthood, I learned soon enough, is a fateWorse than life, nights on call for the demonsIn a vomiting lamb, a dry breast, a broken radio,And days spent parroting the timeless adages,Spent arbitrating water rights, property lines,Or feuds between rival herdsmen over scrub brush,Spent blessing every bride and anyone's big-belliedFourth or fifth wife, praying that they deliver sons.I thought back to the time, not ten feet from him,I heard a homily delivered by old John XXIII,Sounding wholly seraphic in his murmured Italian.
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