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How to use Absalom in a sentence

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Sentence Examples
Education Leeds assistant chief executive Roland Absalom said it was a clear signal that the situation was improving.
Stephen draws a parallel between someone who would spy while pretending to be a friend, and what Matthew did to Absalom.
Absalom then fled to Geshur, stayed there three years, was taken back to Jerusalem by Joab, and two years later was reconciled to his father.
In 2 Samuel 15:1-6, Absalom stands beside the city gate giving counsel that should have been given by King David.
All the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.
According to Miriam Bixler, Absalom was a multitalented individual who worked as a farmer, woodcarver, maker of gunstocks, and justice of the peace, as well as a potter.
His Absalom and Achitophel and Religio Laici both served the King directly by making controversial royal actions seem reasonable.
As a result, Absalom took the kingship and power from his father by force.
Exceptional players lost to the league game included Jim Sullivan of Cardiff, William Absalom of Abercarn and Emlyn Jenkins of Treorchy.
The Pyramid was inspired by the Tomb of Zechariah and Tomb of Absalom in the Kidron Valley in Jerusalem.
Examples from Classical Literature
I thought so the night we went over to run the claim-jumper off Absalom Frost's land, within a week of my joining.
The copestone which Absalom put on his plot when all was ripe for execution was of a piece with the whole undertaking.
For there the army of Absalom went out to meet the army of his father David.
Absalom had his coat off in an instant, and felled Roaring Billy like an ox.
If Absalom is a type of the demagogue, Shimei surely is a type of the sycophant.
Absalom was only an office seeker, but his election address contained a noble sentiment.
Thus did David mourn when he could not call back Absalom to life.
Bravely did this young Absalom defend his unfledged royalty.
Absalom went back to the railway and drank harder than ever.
The Sabbath-school songs had the young man Absalom distinctly in view.
Had the hairs on the head of Absalom been as scarce as thine, he might have been living to this day.
In spite of the fine sounding lines you will perhaps never care to read Absalom and Achitophel save as a footnote to history.
Nay, I am neither Asa, nor Absalom, nor any of the Hebrew princes, but Obed, the root and stock of them all.
So I tuck Asa Montagu, and he tuck Absalom Bement, and they two tuck old Squire Napthali Green.
At length Absalom left John at work at the pipes while he went over to the engine and began loosening and tightening screws and wedges.
Probably, on his escaping from Absalom, he crossed as we did.
After that, Absalom, one other of his sons, killed his own brother.
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