How do you use Thoreau in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like writer or author, plus the exact meaning.
Thoreau in a sentence
Thoreau meaning
- A surname.
- A census-designated place in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States, believed to be named after Henry David Thoreau.
Using Thoreau
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname. | A census-designated place in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States, believed to be named after Henry David Thoreau.
- Useful related words include: henry david thoreau, writer, author.
- In the example corpus, thoreau often appears in combinations such as: david thoreau, of thoreau, the thoreau.
Context around Thoreau
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 10 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Thoreau
- In this selection, "thoreau" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, david, henry, international, new, society and institute stand out and add context to how "thoreau" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2019 in thoreau new mexico and also set thoreau s words. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "thoreau" sits close to words such as abbasid, abdicate and adapters, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with thoreau
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Thoreau, Henry DavidCarry On, Mr. Bowditch. (6 words)
Cancerian author Henry David Thoreau said that. (7 words)
I write this Diary "deliberately” in the Thoreau tradition. (9 words)
Thoreau had told him the canoe would move “where you guide it” — not helpful advice, since the contrary motion produced by even a single stroke needs to be feathered and corrected if one is ever to pursue a straight course. (40 words)
Besides his supremely goofy entrance in Thoreau's swimming pool, where he uses the power of electricity to strike awe and fear into the man's heart, Johnny Destiny seemingly uses his power to help Julian and Lucille. (38 words)
I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (Jeffrey S. Cramer, ed.) (Yale University Press, 2007) p. 1 Thoreau was a philosopher of nature and its relation to the human condition. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
A dried out lake stands near the Navajo Nation town of Thoreau on June 06, 2019 in Thoreau, New Mexico.
His memory is honored by the international Thoreau Society and his legacy honored by the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods, established in 1998 in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
In the essay "Henry David Thoreau, Philosopher" Roderick Nash writes: "Thoreau left Concord in 1846 for the first of three trips to northern Maine.
I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (Jeffrey S. Cramer, ed.) (Yale University Press, 2007) p. 1 Thoreau was a philosopher of nature and its relation to the human condition.
The 4th movement of the Concord Sonata for piano (with a part for flute, Thoreau's instrument) is a character picture and he also set Thoreau's words.
Thoreau's friend Ellery Channing published his first biography, Thoreau the Poet-Naturalist, in 1873, and Channing and another friend Harrison Blake edited some poems, essays, and journal entries for posthumous publication in the 1890s.
Besides his supremely goofy entrance in Thoreau's swimming pool, where he uses the power of electricity to strike awe and fear into the man's heart, Johnny Destiny seemingly uses his power to help Julian and Lucille.
Cancerian author Henry David Thoreau said that.
It is about the two years Thoreau spent in a cabin in Massachusetts, about time spent simply and cleanly.
Shortly after starting my career nearly 40 years ago, I drove through a summer rainstorm to claim a copy of Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden” that I’d spotted on a store shelf.
Thoreau had told him the canoe would move “where you guide it” — not helpful advice, since the contrary motion produced by even a single stroke needs to be feathered and corrected if one is ever to pursue a straight course.
Thoreau, Henry DavidCarry On, Mr. Bowditch.
Walden is the textual reflection of Thoreau’s social experiment of living isolated in a cabin next to Walden Pond in order to better understand society.
As long as two centuries ago the naturalist Henry Thoreau was urging us to live in the present, “to find your eternity in each moment”.
I write this Diary "deliberately” in the Thoreau tradition.
Just as readers now know that Henry David Thoreau didn’t truly live as an individualist at Walden, no man can survive alone.
What Thoreau did was exactly that ‒ a successful and thus recommendable experiment in shifting involvements.
Both were funny, ironic, and testy, and they pick at each other a bit: Polis finds Thoreau somewhat dense and repetitive.
The Yankees, like their idol Henry Thoreau, found the war to be distasteful and unfair but did not want to spend their time in jail as he did.
This summer I started reading the works of naturalists Henry Beston and Henry David Thoreau and was struck by their writings and man’s timeless need to commune with nature.
Common combinations with thoreau
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: