ab ovo

How to use ab ovo in a sentence

• Of plot Horace says little, only suggesting that the poet should not begin ab ovo but plunge at once into the midst of the action.

  Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance | Donald Lemen Clark

• Smith minor's translation of ab ovo usque ad mala is thus justified: "It is up to the males to lay eggs."

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 26, 1916 | Various

• The generalization that all is developed ab ovo was just receiving universal attention.

  Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding | John Dewey

• I knew him from the very egg, I may say—ab ovo—Mrs. Cavanagh; it was I instilled his first principles into him.

  The Emigrants Of Ahadarra | William Carleton

• The Romans began their noonday meal with eggs, and ended with a dessert; ab ovo ad malum.

  The Castaways | Captain Mayne Reid