Benjamin

//ˈbɛnd͡ʒəmɪn//

"Benjamin" in a Sentence (21 examples)

People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

Benjamin shot a bear with a rifle.

First, we will talk to Doctor Benjamin Burns.

Benjamin called the sense of awe and reverence experienced before a great work of art "aura".

Benjamin Harrison's campaign was well-organized.

Benjamin Franklin then told a funny little story.

Benjamin is opening that old truck.

Benjamin Franklin was an American statesman and inventor.

Benjamin Franklin was an American politician and inventor.

Then Benjamin saw that she was his sister, and said, "I am Benjamin, thy youngest brother." And she began to weep for joy, and Benjamin wept also, and they kissed and embraced each other with the greatest love.

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something which is not long enough to constitute a benjamin, and too long for a dress coat or spencer

How the young man from Cambridge sulkily put his five great-coats in front; but was reconciled when little Miss Sharp was made to quit the carriage, and mount up beside him—when he covered her up in one of his Benjamins, and became perfectly good-humoured—

And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.

What about the youngest child - the Benjamin - the child of its parents' mature strength and charity, always better treated than the unfortunate eldest children of their youthful ignorance and wilfulness?

"Well, who the hell ever thinks some boy with a name like Benjamin is going to kill someone?" I said. "It's like someone named Winnie the Pooh taking hostages!"

For it would surely improve the domestic standing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an unbudgeable hawk, and thereby indefinitely delay peace on that Middle Eastern front.

Fuck the past, let's dwell on the 500SL, the E&J and ginger ale / The way my pockets swell to the rims with Benjamins

Swimmin' in women wit they own condominiums / Five plus fives, who drive millenniums / It's all about the Benjamins, what?

Health Care: It's All About the Benjamins [title]

Sneering through gold grillz, inked to the neck in bad tattoos and representing my area code, Franco leads the spring breakers through a stylized, mtv version of thug life, replete with drugs, guns, Benjamins and booty call.

He pursed his lips, went to the cash register, and opened it. He pulled out two Benjamins and a US Grant, which he set down on the glass case before me.

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