Joan of Arc

How To Use Joan of Arc In A Sentence

• I then said that no one I knew could serve as a better example of martyrdom than Joan of Arc, before relating a short account of her life for the rest of the essay.
• Scottish nationalists have made her into their version of Joan of Arc, a martyred hero who struggled against English oppression.
• “He’s behaved like a perfect peeg!” she said gruffly, pronouncing the word cochon as though she referred to Joan of Arc’s contemporary, Bishop Cauchon. Within a Budding Grove
• Joan of Arc was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church in 1920.
• A group of actors are rehearsing a play about Joan of Arc.
• If in Anatole France the savant has not lately flourished to the detriment of the fighting philosopher, why should he have spent years on the "Joan of Arc" at a period when Jaurès urgently needed intellectual aid against the doctrinarianism of the International Congress? Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911
• Rather than refer to her speech at the previous day's banquet, whether to endorse or disavow such colorful phrases as "the Pentagon, a pentacle crowded with the demons of nuclear madness," or "the CIA-the Children Immolation Agency," he made an unspeech of it and simply called her a modern Joan of Arc. That St. Joan took arms in the cause of liberation became an unfact. The Boat of a Million Years
• Joan of Arc, who inspires strange fervors and theories. The Truth About Joan of Arc
• The main bookcase is almost empty, the others contain collapsing stacks of books; in the English bookcase Marina Warner’s Joan of Arc and Naomi Wolf’s Fire with Fire prop up Claire Petulengro’s Love Signs (and I’m not even sure how she got there). 2009 February « Tales from the Reading Room
• So VI turned out more like Joan of Arc crossed with Joan Rivers, brave and big-mouthed, someone to do and be all the things Paretsky could not take on herself.