Example Sentences

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“Autumn” and “Winter”, the first two books in a quartet by Ali Smith, a Scottish author, try to anatomise the divisions of post-Brexit Britain.

From Economist • Jul. 5, 2018

When the biographers come to anatomise this second chapter at Chelsea, I hope at least one of them considers entitling it something along the lines of: “Just Don’t Call It Shakespearean.”

From The Guardian • Dec. 16, 2015

Mostly, though, they feel like material worked up from magazine profiles or overambitious efforts to anatomise a nation through its celebrities.

From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2013

Few were more qualified than him to anatomise the nature of the country in which he told his stories.

From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2011

He might dissect, anatomise, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him.

From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley