Example Sentences

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Eliot wrote in the first of his Four Quartets.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2024

And the Emerson String Quartet will play Bartok’s six quartets and Beethoven’s “Razumovsky” Quartets in three concerts.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2019

Think of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets: “The stillness, as a Chinese jar still / Moves perpetually in its stillness.”

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2015

Quartets then started to flow out of Riley.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2015

A friend of mine, also in honors, had managed never to read a word of Shakespeare; but she was a real expert on the Four Quartets.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath