Sentence examples for john from inspiring English sources
The word "john" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it as a given name or in reference to the generic, unnamed male character. For example, "John did not think the situation through before he acted."
noun
A prostitute's client.
"John", we say, "John, please: do not mangle our bodies just for working here".
John, London at Dawn Anthony is a fantastic teacher, not just for his technical skill and keen eye but also his enthusiasm and passion for photography which is highly infectious!
John is a lawyer: slick, conniving and low.
My brother John was a widower when he died in 1987 aged 60.
Yes, it's more competitive, but I'm taking over the party at a much more propitious time than John [Hume] did in 1979, when the security agenda dominated and the British government would not have risked any initiatives".
It was shortlisted for the 2008 John Llewellyn-Rhys Memorial Prize and the 2009 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and won a Somerset Maugham Award and the 2008 Costa Poetry Award.
These days, it is only the world's grandparents who can tell you where they were when they heard John F Kennedy was dead.
He is more Dave Pelz than Harvey Penick.
The two supreme court justices thought likely to cast the deciding votes, Anthony Kennedy and the chief justice, John Roberts, appeared deeply sceptical of the government's contention that healthcare regulation is a special case that gives Congress the power to oblige individuals to obtain insurance.
The DUP leader's ultimatum followed the collapse of the trial of John Downey, suspected of involvement in the 1982 Hyde Park bombing which killed four soldiers.
Two films received seven nominations: The Insider, the true story of a whistle-blower in the tobacco industry, and The Cider House Rules, an adaptation of the John Irving novel set in a New England orphanage.
