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Cromwell

[ US /ˈkɹɑmwəɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658)

How To Use Cromwell In A Sentence

  • Cromwell's role at Putney was first and foremost as chair and ringmaster.
  • In England there were leaders like Oliver Cromwell with his New Model Army and radical groups like the Levellers.
  • As it had availed Wolsey nothing that his breach of praemunire had been countenanced by the King, so it availed Cromwell nothing that the King had seemed to support him. England under the Tudors
  • They had met originally when Verrall was writing a biography of Cromwell for which William had done much of the research.
  • Cromwell's Ironsides and a long-faced, high-hatted Puritan cavalry-man, both on horseback, and a third on foot, with _musquetoon_ on shoulder. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
  • Ms Cromwell’s account of a discussion she had with her endocrinologist is illuminating: Sugar and spice and all things neurobiological
  • He would clearly have marched with the Diggers and the Levellers, almost as much the enemies of Cromwell's authoritarianism as of Charles' belief in the divine right of kings.
  • The symbolism of the pole decorated with ribbons and garlands was deeply offensive to the Puritans and maypoles were forbidden by Oliver Cromwell's parliament from 1644.
  • one who cleans and restores and sometimes ruins old pictures"; Pict: "one of an ancient people of obscure affinities, in Britain, esp. north-eastern Scotland; in Scottish folklore, one of a dwarfish race of underground dwellers, to whom (with the Romans, the Druids and Cromwell) ancient monuments are generally attributed"; perpetrate: "to execute or commit (esp. an offence, a poem, or a pun)"; and eclair: "... long in shape but short in duration. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
  • I loathe the idea of braggart look-at-how-we-give-to-the-poor stuff, but the object is to get Christmas gifts in some sort of perspective....would value other suggestions from blog readers onm how to do something to counter gross Christmas greed/consumerism without looking Cromwellian or smug. Auntie joanna writes
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