Example sentences for: yardley

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

  • Books -- A Fan's Notes , by Frederick Exley, and Misfit: The Strange Life of Frederick Exley , by Jonathan Yardley;

  • Yardley hunts in their margins for clues to Exley's inner life, with modest results.

  • "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."

  • 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.

  • According to Jonathan Yardley's Misfit , Exley didn't become rich, just somewhat famous, though this was enough to turn his alienation into an act, a tiresome self-caricature.


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