Example sentences for: yardley

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

  • 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.

  • "Still, Yardley's book has value as a study of just how small and brief and enigmatic certain writers' lives can be once you've subtracted their work from the equation."

  • 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.

  • Still, Yardley's book has value as a study of just how small and brief and enigmatic certain writers' lives can be once you've subtracted their work from the equation.

  • (Read this interview with Cheever in the New York Times [requires free registration], in which she responds to Yardley's comments in the Post : "That's just what he did to Daddy."


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