OE

Example Sentences

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In nearby Bon Oe village, the quake caused a mosque to collapse onto worshippers gathered for the noon prayer on the last Friday of Ramadan, killing many.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

If he wins, he would will be first Japanese writer since Kenzaburo Oe in 1994 to be named a Nobel laureate.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2023

He spent weekends at a house in East Hampton, where the novelist Kenzaburo Oe stopped by for visits, and he sometimes encountered his father’s first wife, the painter Joan Mitchell.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2023

The experience of parenting a child with a severe mental disability is what Oe called one of the central, structuring pillars of his work.

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2023

Oe mai no ma kai, Thou art from the sea, Owau iho no ma uka; I, indeed, beneath the land mountain.

From Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Nordhoff, Charles