Example Sentences

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Nick and Matthew Golebiewski climbed to the summit of Gothics mountain in the Adirondacks with packs, water, good boots and a new must-have item: advanced reservations.

From Fox News • May 28, 2021

Gothics were already a well-established craze when Matthew Lewis created an international sensation with his 1796 novel “The Monk,” narrated with exquisite relish for Naxos Audiobooks by Nicholas Boulton and Georgina Sutton.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2020

Perhaps more than any other 20th-century author she championed the incorporation of fairy tales and folklore into modern fiction, although she was also fascinated by Gothics, James Joyce, the Marquis de Sade, and science fiction.

From Slate • Mar. 14, 2017

Gothics can be absorbing in a different way from whodunits, their inward gaze enthralling but claustrophobic.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 26, 2016

The horseshoe round is the Arabic and Moorish arch, and its relative pointed includes the whole range of Arabic and lancet, or Early English and French Gothics.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John