Get to know Gide better with 10+ real example sentences and synonyms like writer or author.
Synonyms of Gide
Using Gide
- Useful related words include: andre gide, writer, author, dramatist.
- In the example corpus, gide often appears in combinations such as: andré gide, gide the, gide life.
Context around Gide
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 7 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gide
- In this selection, "gide" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, introduced, fact, dogo, reveal, went and wrote stand out and add context to how "gide" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include from andré gide a life and and 1894 gide travelled in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gide" sits close to words such as aberrant, abloh and absurdities, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gide
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Gide's legal wife, Madeleine, died in 1938. (8 words)
Of Allégret's five children, Gide adopted Marc. (8 words)
Marc was the son of Elie Allégret, best man at Gide's wedding. (13 words)
Information in this paragraph is extracted from André Gide: A Life in the Present by Alan Sheridan, pages 628. "His first novel emerged from Gide’s own journal, and many of the first-person narratives read more or less like journals. (41 words)
Gide even went so far as to say that future historians will overestimate Bergson’s influence on art and philosophy just because he was the self-appointed spokesman for “the spirit of the age”. (34 words)
He received rave reviews for his work as the blackmailing Arab boy in the New York production of Gide’s “The Immoralist,” good enough to earn him a trip to Hollywood. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
Information in this paragraph is extracted from André Gide: A Life in the Present by Alan Sheridan, pages 628. "His first novel emerged from Gide’s own journal, and many of the first-person narratives read more or less like journals.
See also * For a chronology of Gide's life, see pages 13–15 in Thomas Cordle, André Gide (The Griffin Authors Series).
Wilde had the impression that he had introduced Gide to homosexuality, but, in fact, Gide had already discovered this on his own.
Dogo Gide, a notorious bandit kingpin, had insisted that the Kebbi State Government must meet some conditions before the remaining girls could be released.
He received rave reviews for his work as the blackmailing Arab boy in the New York production of Gide’s “The Immoralist,” good enough to earn him a trip to Hollywood.
As a whole, “The works of André Gide reveal his passionate revolt against the restraints and conventions inherited from 19th-century France.
Elisabeth eventually left her husband to move to Paris and manage the practical aspects of Gide's life (they had adjoining apartments built for each on the rue Vavin).
From Publisher's Weekly as quoted on Amazon.com. * La marche Turque – (Journey to Turkey) - 1914 - Hastily written notes on Gide’s trip to Turkey.
Gide even went so far as to say that future historians will overestimate Bergson’s influence on art and philosophy just because he was the self-appointed spokesman for “the spirit of the age”.
Gide's legal wife, Madeleine, died in 1938.
Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritanical constraints, and centres on his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty.
Gide was also an avid letter writer, and his surviving letters run into the thousands.
Gide went successively to Middle Congo (now the Republic of the Congo ), Ubangi-Shari (now the Central African Republic ), briefly to Chad and then to Cameroun before returning to France.
Gide wrote this in 1900, and it was published in book form in France in 1946.
However, both Gide and Malraux were undecided, and this may have been the cause of Sartre's disappointment and discouragement.
In 1893 and 1894, Gide travelled in Northern Africa, and it was there that he came to accept his attraction to boys.
Information in this paragraph is extracted from André Gide: A Life in the Present by Alan Sheridan, pp. 629-33.
In the first part, Gide describes his visits to southern Italy, a farm in Normandy, and various locales in North Africa.
Marc was the son of Elie Allégret, best man at Gide's wedding.
Of Allégret's five children, Gide adopted Marc.
Common combinations with gide
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: