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Example sentences for "numskull"

Lexicographically close words:
nummos; nummulite; nummulitic; numquam; numquid; nun; nuna; nunc; nunca; nunciature
  1. This, roughly speaking, is the notion of the average male numskull today.

  2. The Pygmies, being ten times as vivacious as their great numskull of a brother, could not abide the Giant's slow movements, and were determined to have him on his feet.

  3. For a simple numskull of a shepherd are so many words necessary?

  4. Tis is an invention of the devil, who has adulterated the holy book," replied the great numskull of a bishop in a hurry to fall to.

  5. I lay you'll be the Methusalem-numskull of creation before ever I ask you --or the likes of you.

  6. Twixt here and Numskull Nob you could 'most walk ashore.

  7. Three points to the south of Numskull Nob,--what d'ye see?

  8. Past Numskull Nob, making her cautious, graceful way through rocks and shoals, was a beautiful white-winged yacht, her mast gay with pennants.

  9. Three letters had come from Aunt Winnie,--a Government boat brought weekly mail to the lighthouse on Numskull Nob.

  10. Do not suppose from this that I am ill in body; it is the numskull that I complain of.

  11. I have a second daughter who is, thank God, in a remote part of the Empire with her numskull of a husband.

  12. The numskull said there was something wrong with my house!

  13. I shall go back to my numskull with the greatest satisfaction when I am tired of you all, clever as you are.

  14. In other words, the numskull is vicious, but a poltroon.

  15. The numskull runs amuck in a crowd, not because he has been inoculated with new rascality by the mysterious crowd influence, but because his habitual rascality now has its only chance to function safely.

  16. I lay you'll be the Methusalem-numskull of creation before ever I ask you--or the likes of you.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "numskull" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.