Horatio

[huh-rey-shee-oh, haw-, hoh-]

noun

1. a male given name.

Example Sentences

In the early 20th century’s Gilded Age, the best-selling books weren’t the ones we consider classics, but Horatio Alger’s inspirational pulp.

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We can’t help spending time staring at Horatio Sanz in the third hour, and we also understand why people may not want to think about what he’s been up to lately.

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Horatio Alger’s novels of children born into poverty could be read as an indictment of the Gilded Age social order, but the romance of these stories always lies in a boy taking fate by the horns.

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And there’s this old Italian group of people — Horatio Sanz, and I think Fred Armisen was in it — and they were talking about how you soak cork for wine bottles.

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In all, Vance’s story of the Horatio Alger myth made real in Appalachia is actually one where he received much help and assistance along the way.

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