Sample Sentences for
Hamlet
(editor-reviewed)

Hamlet as in:  Shakespeare's play

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    The only thing old Phoebe liked was when Hamlet patted this dog on the head.  (source)
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    Bill gave me Hamlet to read for the break.  (source)
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    Maybe you'll remember that 'To be or not to be' is Hamlet, not Macbeth....  (source)
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    Adam was always very good as Hamlet giving his To Be or Not to Be soliloquy.  (source)
    Hamlet = title and main character of Shakespeare's often quoted tragedy in which a sensitive man seeks to avenge his father's murder
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    Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, was speculative and irresolute, and we have a great tragedy in consequence.†  (source)
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    You mean like Hamlet jumping into the grave?  (source)
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    But many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet (you know the title certainly, Montag; it is probably only a faint rumor of a title to you, Mrs. Montag), whose sole knowledge, as I say, of Hamlet was a one-page digest in a book that claimed: now at last you can read all the classics; keep up with your neighbors.  (source)
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    He would no sooner have crouched behind a balustrade to watch Cicero debating Catiline, or Hamlet debating himself.  (source)
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    I want to share something Virginia Woolf wrote: 'English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache....The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.'  (source)
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    Instantly, all that had come before seemed like stops along a journey to this place: the bombing in Vienna, the years of self-imposed exile, the long Hamlet-like struggle over whether it was proper for him to remarry and start another family.  (source)
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    Hamlet, I suppose, for starters—I give Hamlet to my Grade Thirteen girls, but they have to make do with reading it; they don't get to see it.  (source)
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    Yes, spoken by Hamlet.  (source)
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    While tent-bound high on Everest, Mallory and his companions would read aloud to one another from Hamlet and King Lear.  (source)
    Hamlet = famous Shakespeare tragedy
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    "Alex is a nut in my book," wrote a resident of Healy, the hamlet at the head of the Stampede Trail.  (source)
    hamlet = small village
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    She plodded through deep sand or black mud for four miles until the bay glistened ahead, the hamlet on its shore.  (source)
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    In this tiny mountain hamlet deep in the Greater Khingan Mountains, something finally thawed in Ye Wenjie's heart.  (source)
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    I felt it would be degrading to faint with hunger on the causeway of a hamlet.  (source)
    hamlet = small village
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    With new courage, therefore, I pressed on, and in two days arrived at a wretched hamlet on the seashore.  (source)
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    The envelope bore no return address, only the postmark of some hamlet in Colorado.  (source)
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    Mrs. Sadie Truitt, the hamlet's septuagenarian mail messenger, who is the mother of Postmistress Clare, is expert on this fabled affair: "August, it was."  (source)
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    What sets one Southern town apart from another, or from a Northern town or hamlet, or city high-rise?  (source)
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    Lights went out in house and hamlet as they came, and doors were shut, and folk that were afield cried in terror and ran wild like hunted deer.  (source)
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    At that moment a whole party of revellers already drunk came in from the street, and the sounds of a hired concertina and the cracked piping voice of a child of seven singing "The Hamlet" were heard in the entry.  (source)
    Hamlet = the name of a song
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    You grant your metropolises all the animals of Eden, but you deny my hamlet the merest Bengal tiger!  (source)
    hamlet = small village
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    Like columns of dust, countless pillars of unexcavated earth rose up, supporting a dirt sky, which hung low over the penumbral hamlet.  (source)
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    She was staring out at Schoenstrom, a hamlet of perhaps a hundred and fifty inhabitants, at which the train was stopping.  (source)
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