Example sentences for: yardley

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

  • Yardley is quoted saying that Shields' effort "is an amazingly bad book, right up there at the top of my list of all-time stinkers."

  • A Fan's Notes , which is being canonized this month in a Modern Library edition and whose author is the subject of a new biography by Washington Post critic Jonathan Yardley, is actually more of a memoir than a novel, and is only incidentally about the former New York Giants halfback Frank Gifford.

  • Maureen Dowd bit first, snorting that the "the futile search for the inner Reagan had driven his biographer barking mad" (the New York Times ); Jonathan Yardley (the Washington Post ) retorted that Dowd "seems incapable of a genuinely serious thought" and commanded her and others to "Shut yo' mouf" until they had read the book.

  • the definitive book on the subject--at least for now" (Jonathan Yardley, the Washington Post ). (Click here to buy the book.)

  • It is instead something far more rare: the work of a great master still locked in unequal combat with Eros and Time," says Louis Begley in the New York Times Book Review . "Bellow writes now with as much authority and energy as he did nearly half a century ago" (Jonathan Yardley, the Washington Post ).


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