Sample Sentences forRip Van Winkle (editor-reviewed)
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After emerging from her coma, she felt like Rip Van Winkle, shocked by how much technology had advanced in just five years.Rip Van Winkle = title character in a Washington Irving short story about a man who sleeps for 20 years and finds a different world upon awakening
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Her daughter joked that he was a real Rip Van Winkle about technology.
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Nenny found a dollar and a dead mouse between two rocks in the stone wall where the morning glories climbed, and once when we were playing hide-and-seek, Eddie Vargas laid his head beneath a hibiscus tree and fell asleep there like a Rip Van Winkle until somebody remembered he was in the game and went back to look for him. (source)Rip Van Winkle = title character in a Washington Irving short story about a man who sleeps for 20 years and finds a different world upon awakening
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On the Lower East Side—well, you know what it's like down there, always something new, but for me it's more this Rip van Winkle feeling, always further and further away. (source)Rip van Winkle = title character in a Washington Irving short story about a man who sleeps for 20 years and finds a different world upon awakening
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The greatest change a suddenly awakened Rip Van Winkle would have noticed was a hushed expectancy, a mental glancing-over-the-shoulder, as mankind waited for the Overlords to show themselves and to step down from their gleaming ships. (source)Rip Van Winkle = title character in a Washington Irving short story about a man who sleeps for 20 years and finds a different world upon awakening
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I'm like that old man with the beard, Rip Van Winkle.† (source)
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How about "Rip Van Winkle"?† (source)
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Listen to me, March, that old Rip van Winkle conked out on purpose.† (source)
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Only I thought that the Rip Van Winkle story was all wrong.† (source)
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The story of Rip van Winkle is an example of the delicate case of the returning hero.† (source)
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Well, the clerk wakes a nice young bell hop—fine lad—not a day over seventy-nine years old—fought at the Battle of Gettysburg and doesn't know it's over yet—thought I was one of the Confederates, I guess, from the way he looked at me—and Rip van Winkle took me up to something—I found out afterwards they called it a room, but first I thought there'd been some mistake—I thought they were putting me in the Salvation Army collection-box!† (source)
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That spring Lena went with me to see Joseph Jefferson in 'Rip Van Winkle,' and to a war play called 'Shenandoah.'† (source)
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He played "Rip Van Winkle."† (source)
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All those years I'd drifted along too glassy and insulated for any kind of reality to push through: a delirium which had spun me along on its slow, relaxed wave since childhood, high and lying on the shag carpet in Vegas laughing at the ceiling fan, only I wasn't laughing any more, Rip van Winkle wincing and holding his head on the ground about a hundred years too late. (source)Rip van Winkle = title character in a Washington Irving short story about a man who sleeps for 20 years and finds a different world upon awakening
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Rip van Winkle never knew what he had experienced; his return was a joke.† (source)
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I could be Rip Van Winkle.† (source)
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