Explore Dreiser through 7 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like writer or author. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Dreiser meaning
A surname from German.
Using Dreiser
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname from German.
- Useful related words include: theodore dreiser, writer, author.
Context around Dreiser
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dreiser
- In this selection, "dreiser" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, john, theodore, novelist, college, began and seems stand out and add context to how "dreiser" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1892 when dreiser began work and a novelist dreiser also wrote. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dreiser" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dreiser
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Her family disowned her for converting to Roman Catholicism in order to marry John Dreiser. (15 words)
Dreiser College, at Stony Brook University located in Stony Brook, New York, is named after him. (16 words)
Theodore Dreiser would lure him out to meetings with phony telegrams and notes, and the resultant evening would be full of good food, conversation and hilarity. (26 words)
If he's the great American novelist, give me the Marx Brothers every time." citation The literary scholar F. R. Leavis wrote that Dreiser "seems as though he learned English from a newspaper. (33 words)
Dreiser was often forced to battle against censorship, because his depiction of some aspects of life, such as sexual promiscuity, offended authorities and challenged popular standards of acceptable opinion. (29 words)
From 1892, when Dreiser began work as a newspaperman, he had begun "to observe a certain type of crime in the United States that proved very common. (27 words)
Example sentences (7)
Dreiser College, at Stony Brook University located in Stony Brook, New York, is named after him.
Dreiser was often forced to battle against censorship, because his depiction of some aspects of life, such as sexual promiscuity, offended authorities and challenged popular standards of acceptable opinion.
From 1892, when Dreiser began work as a newspaperman, he had begun "to observe a certain type of crime in the United States that proved very common.
Her family disowned her for converting to Roman Catholicism in order to marry John Dreiser.
If he's the great American novelist, give me the Marx Brothers every time." citation The literary scholar F. R. Leavis wrote that Dreiser "seems as though he learned English from a newspaper.
Theodore Dreiser would lure him out to meetings with phony telegrams and notes, and the resultant evening would be full of good food, conversation and hilarity.
Though known primarily as a novelist, Dreiser also wrote short stories, publishing his first collection, Free and Other Stories, in 1918, made up of 11 stories.