Dutch

in a sentence

"He seemed extremely intelligent," Franz states in an exotic brogue that sounds like a blend of Scottish, Pennsylvania Dutch, and Carolina drawl.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

He spoke English with a Dutch accent, which Lotte found charming.  (source) Mina Baites, The Silver Music Box, 2017

In 1952, my grandfather, son of a Presbyterian minister and now a Presbyterian minister himself, became the first black minister in the history of the Dutch Reformed Church.  (source) Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore, 2010

Another transport crashed on takeoff, in part because several Dutch POWs had overloaded the plane by packing aboard a large cache of GI shoes that they intended to sell back home.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

The shunnee, so to speak, has gotten himself in dutch with the church, so he's excommunicated.†  (source) Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl, 2000

I couldn't very well ask him about it, so I just sat there surrounded by Dutchness, feeling awkward and hopeful.  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

For the French it is Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People; for the Dutch, Rembrandt's Night Watch; for the Americans, Washington Crossing the Delaware; and for we Russians?  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

Around its mouth was a motto written in Dutch, which Millard, standing next to me, translated: "From the mouths of our elders comes a fountain of wisdom."†  (source) Ransom Riggs, Hollow City, 2014

My parents were Dutch scientists, killed in a laboratory accident when I was a baby.  (source) Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society, 2007

Above the picture was a caption: IN DUTCH WITH PA.†  (source) Richard Wright, Native Son, 1940

The davenport makes von Rumpel think of an eighteenth-century Dutch tobacco box made out of brass and copper and encrusted with tiny diamonds that he examined earlier this week, and the tobacco box sends his thoughts, as inexorably as gravity, back to the Sea of Flames.  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

The secretary of the Province of New Netherland, writing in Dutch, in 1650, for the information of those who wished to take up land there, states more particularly that "those in New Netherland, and especially in New England, who have no means to build farmhouses at first according to their wishes, dig a square pit in the ground, cellar fashion, six or seven feet deep, as long and as broad as they think proper, case the earth inside with wood all round the wall, and line the wood with the bark of trees or something else to prevent the caving in of the earth;†  (source) Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

...the pleasant May air, which was sweetened and colored by the flowering crabapples and beds of tulips and Dutch iris that flanked the entrance, a display we hadn't even noticed upon going in.  (source) Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, 1991

On their first night there her brother had plucked the stiff horse hairs out of the freshly whitewashed walls and run his fingers along the toothmarks on top of the double Dutch door where the wood was soft and worn.†  (source) Julie Otsuka, When the Emperor Was Divine, 2002

He took the essentials—a big black cast-iron skillet and the Dutch oven, some army-surplus tin plates, a few knives, his pistol, and Mom's archery set—and packed them in the trunk of the Blue Goose.†  (source) Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle, 2005

He slipped out of the pen and walked to the Dutch doors and stood with one hand on the latch listening to water sheeting off the eaves.†  (source) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2008

Smallest, she thought dismally, looking at it There were twelve burners, two regular ovens and a Dutch oven, a heated well on top in which you could simmer sauces or bake beans, a broiler, and a warmer — plus a million dials and temperature gauges.†  (source) Stephen King, The Shining, 1977

She put her head into the nursing station, in through the open half of the Dutch door.†  (source) Susanna Kaysen, Girl Interrupted, 1993

With a little imagination, subtracting out the changes the Sawtelles had made—the expanded kitchen, the extra bedroom, the back porch that ran the length of the west side—you'd notice that the house had the same steep gambrel roof that shed the snow so well in the winter, and that the windows were cut into the house just where the Dutch doors appeared at the end of the barn.†  (source) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2008

He went over and put his hand on top of the Dutch oven.†  (source) Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove, 1985

In some of the stables, the top of the Dutch door at each stall was open.†  (source) Dean Koontz, Sole Survivor, 1997

By the time they'd returned to the barn, Tinder was heeling without flaw, and when Edgar stopped before the Dutch doors, the dog dropped into a perfect sit at his knee.†  (source) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2008

What with the feather bed, her flannel nightgown, the thick down cover, and his woolen clothing and alpaca socks, it was like a Dutch oven.†  (source) Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War, 1991

No leaning over the Dutch door to chat on maximum security.†  (source) Susanna Kaysen, Girl Interrupted, 1993

He looked again toward the Dutch doors and then faced into the workshop and then got control of himself and took a breath and looked steadily at Edgar.†  (source) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2008

A woman professor who was a friend of Antonina Alexan-drovna's taught her to bake bread in an improvised Dutch oven.†  (source) Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, 1958