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How to use spencer in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Spencer means a short double-breasted men's overcoat worn in the 18th and 19th centuries. Example: “Spencer University lays claim to the recently published discovery.”

More sentences with spencer

  • Spencer University lays claim to the recently published discovery.From the entry lay claim
  • Spencer read Greats at Oxford, taking a starred first.From the entry greats
  • Spencer came with all the soft-skill attributes of a desk officer.2014, Dalton Fury, Full Assault Mode, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 139. From the entry fatigue
  • Spencer Bull, for instance, who was a good reporter with one weakness . . .1987 May 22, John Gross, "Books of the Times" (review of The Paris Edition by Waverley Root), New York Times (retrieved 1 Nov 2011). From the entry snootful
  • Spencer, who remembers Ocracoke before tourists began swelling its summertime population.1987 October, Charles E. Cobb, Jr., “North Carolina's Outer Banks”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 497. From the entry Ocracoke
  • Spencer Carleton, died on Tuesday at her home. 71 West Fiftieth Street, in her thirty-first year.1910 June 3, “Obituary Notes”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry Ernesta
  • Spencer Cox of Utah said all but one of the fields on his family’s farm had dried up.2021 July 20, Jack Healy, Sophie Kasakove, “A Drought So Dire That a Utah Town Pulled the Plug on Growth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry dry up
  • Spencer remembers the session as being 'as boring as beans'.2012, Mick Brown, Tearing Down The Wall of Sound: The Rise And Fall of Phil Spector. From the entry remember
  • Spencer has left the door to his study open.2003, Jodi Picoult, Second Glance, Atria Books export edition, Atria Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 237. From the entry accountant's lamp
  • Spencer, my boy, you're a fool—I've got it.1904, William F. Cattell, A Receipt for $10,000, page 16. From the entry so help me
  • Spencer predicted that the conservative movement’s broader embrace of the far right could start with news media outlets adding what he described as “alt-lite” hosts.2016 November 6, Jonathan Mahler, Julie Turkewitz, “Donald Trump’s Extremist Supporters Feel Like Winners Either Way”, in New York Times. From the entry alt-lite
  • Spencer begins with an idea in the Platonist sense, which he proceeds to unfold, to spatialize and temporalize in the universe of fiction.1991, S. K. Heninger, Jr., “Spenser, Sidney, and Poetic Form”, in Studies in Philology, volume 88, number 2, page 147. From the entry temporalize

Meaning of spencer

  1. noun A short double-breasted men's overcoat worn in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  2. noun A short, close-fitting jacket primarily worn by women and children in the early 19th century.
  3. noun A (usually woollen) vest worn by women and girls for extra warmth.

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Questions about spencer in a sentence

How do you use spencer in a sentence?
Spencer is used as a noun. For example: “Spencer University lays claim to the recently published discovery.”
What is a short sentence with spencer?
“Spencer, my boy, you're a fool—I've got it.”
What does spencer mean?
Spencer means a short double-breasted men's overcoat worn in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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