www.use-in-a-sentence.com
English words and Examples of Usage
use "adage" in a sentence
Just the same, we would advise sporting teams who come up against us in our sports gear to remember the Latin adage, inscribed above a kennel in Pompeii : "Cave canem!" I am a great believer in Cromwell's adage that the people who applaud you on your rise will be the same ones cheering at your
execution'.
A disadvantage of bright tracers is that they give away the shooter's location to the enemy; as a military adage puts it, "tracers work both ways".
Economic impact The importance of trucking is communicated by the industry adage : "If you bought it, a truck brought it." Adagio ADAGE (French), ADAGIO (Italian) In song,Adagio means "slowly", and in ballet it means slow, enfolding movements.
It uses, argues with, and even abandons its wielders, and struggles with them in an effort to kill as many people as it can (perhaps a jab at the adage, "Guns don't kill people; people kill people.", or possibly a sarcastic defence of it).
Avon refuses to be afraid of the prison time offering his old adage that he will serve two days, the day he goes in and the day he gets out.
Christiansen and Tully incorrectly cite (without attribution) Auric Goldfinger 's adage that "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action." Perhaps proving the baseball adage that good pitching beats good hitting, the 1921 Tigers lacked good pitching and finished in 6th place, 27 games behind the Yankees.
The adage "step on the ball" refers to the pilot having to apply rudder in the same direction as the ball is deflected in order to return the aircraft to coordinated flight.
The pleasure in making a satisfactory object.'"- Shainberg, L., Exorcising Beckett, The Paris Review No. 104, Fall 1987 An old adage says that people hear what they want to hear; they hone in on what's relevant to them.
95 more results not shown.
Academic English Words List and Example Sentences
Example sentences with the adage, a sentence example for adage, and how to make adage in sample sentence, how do I use the word adagein a sentence? How do you spell adage in a sentence? spelling of adagew
Search
Example Sentences for any English Word here .... |
Follow @englishpedia1
Share on Facebook
The Manila selfie museum encouraging visitors to take pictures with art
Have you ever liked a piece of art so much you feel like you’re part of it? Well, a museum in the Philippines is helping people do just that. Art in Island, a museum in Manila, created by a group of Korean artists, features over a hundred unique three dimensional paintings that encourage people to pose in front of them. Each artwork is created in such a way that when...
Nazi hideout in Argentina
Was this a hideout for German Nazi officers? Deep in Argentina’s northern jungle, archaeologists have discovered the ruins of what may have originally been a Nazi hiding place. “It’s a defendable site, a protected site, an inaccessible site, where you can live peacefully in hiding. We believe we’ve found a refuge for the Nazi hierarchy.”Researchers from the University of Buenos Aires...
Family lives with lions
When most people tell you they have a couple of cats at home, these probably aren't the type of cat you’d expect, but for one family in Gaza, these lion cubs are their household pets. Lioness Mona and Alex, who’s a male, were born in the battle-torn Gaza Strip to parents that were smuggled through a ...
Window cleaners have an accident
A terrifying ordeal for two window cleaners in China, as the platform they were working on began swinging violently and smashing into the building. The incident, which took place outside the 91st floor of the Shanghai World Financial Centre, lasted for 15 minutes with their cradle slamming into a wall at one point, sending glass flying into the building and down to the ground.