Sentence for proverbial | Use proverbial in a sentence

Use the word proverbial in a sentence. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use proverbial in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for proverbial.

• It had become proverbial among them. (12)
• The apathy of Englishmen will become proverbial. (10)
• He has, in the proverbial expression, burned his bridges behind him. (12)
• This comparison with an animal of proverbial stubbornness was not encouraging. (8)
• Mrs. Mel seldom indulged in a joke, and then only when it had a proverbial cast. (10)
• The names of his two rascally heroes (Dr. Jekyll is even less of a gentleman than Hyde) became proverbial. (2)
• The stupidity of Italian sbirri is proverbial, or a Milanese cavalier would have been astonished to conceive himself mistaken for a Bolognese. (10)

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