Mencken is an English word with synonyms like journalist. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Mencken in a sentence
Mencken meaning
A surname.
Synonyms of Mencken
Using Mencken
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname.
- Useful related words include: h. l. mencken, henry louis mencken, journalist, literary critic.
- In the example corpus, mencken often appears in combinations such as: mencken was, mencken also, mencken who.
Context around Mencken
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 13 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mencken
- In this selection, "mencken" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, published, elevating, nazi, titled, doesn and observed stand out and add context to how "mencken" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include according to mencken mathematics is and against mcpherson mencken revisited the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mencken" sits close to words such as aerobics, afterparty and ahn, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mencken
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Mencken is a “YouTube provocateur” who declares “rape is natural. (10 words)
He named Mencken and “Main Street” as part of the problem. (11 words)
By now, we know that either neo-Nazi Mencken or Democrat Jimenez has this in the bag. (17 words)
After his stroke, Mencken enjoyed listening to European classical music and, after some recovery of his ability to speak, talking with friends, but he sometimes referred to himself in the past tense, as if he were already dead. (38 words)
But the network’s most foregrounded effects are on Kendall’s daughter, who attends a school where her classmates have started an anti-ATN club, and is seemingly perturbed by her father’s role in elevating Mencken. (37 words)
What I consider the most cynical utterance in the entire literature of Americana — H.L. Mencken's "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public" -- presents a point of view I eschew enthusiastically. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
In 1989, per his instructions, Alfred A. Knopf published Mencken's "secret diary" as The Diary of H. L. Mencken.
A satirical essay by H. L. Mencken, titled “A Neglected Anniversary,” was published 28 December 1917, in the New York Evening Mail.
But the network’s most foregrounded effects are on Kendall’s daughter, who attends a school where her classmates have started an anti-ATN club, and is seemingly perturbed by her father’s role in elevating Mencken.
By now, we know that either neo-Nazi Mencken or Democrat Jimenez has this in the bag.
He named Mencken and “Main Street” as part of the problem.
Instead of having Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård) as CEO, a foreigner who contradicts Mencken's belief in basically making America great again, Shiv suggests letting the GoJo deal go through with an American CEO in charge — herself.
Kendall is incapable of seeing where Jess, a Black woman, is coming from in her refusal to work with Mencken, who uses white supremacist dog whistles in his presidential acceptance speech.
Meanwhile, just because ATN declared victory for Mencken doesn’t necessarily mean he’s going to wind up in office.
Mencken is a “YouTube provocateur” who declares “rape is natural.
Roman is most actively following in Logan's footsteps, as his thirst for control of Waystar makes him staunchly endorse Mencken, who will also advance the corporation's agenda.
They make the unsubstantiated call to hand electoral votes to Mencken not just for the deal but to get back at Shiv for working with Matsson behind their backs.
What I consider the most cynical utterance in the entire literature of Americana — H.L. Mencken's "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public" -- presents a point of view I eschew enthusiastically.
Yet with all this in play, people lost their minds at seeing Roman, Mencken's biggest champion, become the most vocal fan of undermining American democracy.
As H.L. Mencken observed, every election amounts to no more than an advance auction on stolen goods, a process few would support if they saw its true nature.
The great writer H. L. Mencken was famous for his witty political observations and sometimes scathing commentary on society of the mid-20th century.
According to Mencken, mathematics is necessarily infected with metaphysics because of the tendency of many mathematical people to engage in metaphysical speculation.
After all charges had been dropped against McPherson, Mencken revisited the case in 1930 with a sarcastically biting and observant article.
After his stroke, Mencken enjoyed listening to European classical music and, after some recovery of his ability to speak, talking with friends, but he sometimes referred to himself in the past tense, as if he were already dead.
Apart from five years of married life, Mencken was to live in that house for the rest of his life. citation.
A. S. Barnes (New York, 1961), pp. 194 Mencken also repeated these opinions multiple times in articles for the American Mercury.
Common combinations with mencken
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- mencken was 4×
- mencken also 4×
- mencken who 2×
- for mencken 2×
- to mencken 2×
- as mencken 2×
- on mencken 2×
- mencken did 2×