leanings
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
She sang in improvised kennings, recited emphatic lyrics in English and Japanese, and moved between extremes of sound.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2015
He is famed on the other side of whaleroad, as the Anglo-Saxon kennings called the ocean, for books of a more indoors nature, among them studies of Oscar Wilde and Noël Coward.
From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2010
These kennings add much imaginative suggestiveness to the otherwise over-terse style, and often contribute to the grim irony which is another outstanding trait.
From A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington
Many and beautiful are the epithets or kennings which he applies to God, taken in part from the Bible, and in part from the imagery of the not wholly extinct heathen mythology.
From Andreas: The Legend of St. Andrew by Root, Robert Kilburn
But there are no kennings of the same sort in the poem, and the line would have no meaning.
From The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 by Faraday, L. Winifred
