How do you use Housman in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like poet, plus the exact meaning.
Housman in a sentence
Housman meaning
A surname.
Synonyms of Housman
Using Housman
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname.
- Useful related words include: a. e. housman, alfred edward housman, poet.
- In the example corpus, housman often appears in combinations such as: and housman, laurence housman, housman also.
Context around Housman
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 10 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Housman
- In this selection, "housman" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, laurence, clemence, song, moved, care and hoursan stand out and add context to how "housman" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1885 when housman moved to and 1942 laurence housman also deposited. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "housman" sits close to words such as abdulai, abhinandan and abhor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with housman
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Housman had an outstanding state warrant for his arrest. (9 words)
A 1976 catalogue listed 400 musical settings of Housman's poems. (11 words)
Housman's brother Laurence Housman and their sister Clemence Housman also became writers. (13 words)
The trouble begins when Ava’s mom finds out that she has spent an hour in the park with Nima (Housman Hoursan), a young man who it unwittingly the target of a bet that Ava makes with her best friend Melody (Shayesteh Sajadi) that he will ask her out. (49 words)
The two shared a flat with Jackson's brother Adalbert until 1885, when Housman moved to lodgings of his own, probably after Jackson responded to a declaration of love by telling Housman that he could not reciprocate his feelings. (39 words)
According to Gow, Housman could never remember his students' names, maintaining that "had he burdened his memory by the distinction between Miss Jones and Miss Robinson, he might have forgotten that between the second and fourth declension". (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Housman's brother Laurence Housman and their sister Clemence Housman also became writers.
Housman in other art forms Music and art song Housman's poetry, especially A Shropshire Lad, was set to music by many British, and in particular English, composers in the first half of the 20th century.
Jackson became the great love of Housman's life, but he was heterosexual and did not reciprocate Housman's feelings.
The two shared a flat with Jackson's brother Adalbert until 1885, when Housman moved to lodgings of his own, probably after Jackson responded to a declaration of love by telling Housman that he could not reciprocate his feelings.
A spokesperson for Housman Care said: "It is essential to read the report in its entirety.
Housman had an outstanding state warrant for his arrest.
The trouble begins when Ava’s mom finds out that she has spent an hour in the park with Nima (Housman Hoursan), a young man who it unwittingly the target of a bet that Ava makes with her best friend Melody (Shayesteh Sajadi) that he will ask her out.
A 1976 catalogue listed 400 musical settings of Housman's poems.
According to Gow, Housman could never remember his students' names, maintaining that "had he burdened his memory by the distinction between Miss Jones and Miss Robinson, he might have forgotten that between the second and fourth declension".
After Oxford Jackson got a job as a clerk in the Patent Office in London and arranged a job there for Housman too.
Between 1903 and 1930 Housman published his critical edition of Manilius's Astronomicon in five volumes.
De Amicitia (Of Friendship) In 1942 Laurence Housman also deposited an essay entitled "A.
Dexter and Housman were both classicists who found a popular audience in another genre of writing.
Gow (Cambridge 1936) p. 18 Housman found his true vocation in classical studies and treated his poems as secondary.
Gow (Cambridge 1936) p. 24 Gow also related how Housman intimidated his students, sometimes reducing them to tears.
He often reflects on such renowned scholars as A. E. Housman who, like himself, failed to get an academic degree from Oxford.
In the early 1920s, when Moses Jackson was dying in Canada, Housman wanted to assemble his best unpublished poems so that Jackson could read them before his death.
Later collections Housman began writing a new set of poems after the First World War.
Moses Jackson moved to India in 1887, placing more distance between himself and Housman.
The essay discussed A. E. Housman's homosexuality and his love for Moses Jackson.
Common combinations with housman
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: