Examples of 'rip van winkle' in a sentence
Meaning of "rip van winkle"
Refers to the fictional character Rip Van Winkle from Washington Irving's short story. It is often used to describe a person who sleeps or is oblivious to significant changes that occur during their absence
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- A Dutch-American villager who falls asleep for 20 years and wakes up to a changed world, having missed the American Revolution; (by extension) someone or something stuck in the past.
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rip van winkle
Bout turned me into rip van winkle.
Rip van winkle pulled it off.
Just like rip van winkle.
Rip van winkle.
Might have been used by rip Van winkle.
Rip Van Winkle awoke to find the world had changed.
It looked as if philosophy would once again soon be emulating Rip van Winkle.
Rip Van Winkle returns to his village where he does not recognize anyone.
I gave him one shot of cortisol and he woke up like Rip van Winkle.
Rip Van Winkle is indeed an anomaly among people in his age group.
You just handed her enough of that dust to make a rhino do a Rip van Winkle.
You would have to be Rip Van Winkle to have missed that discussion.
It has something to do with Rip van Winkle.
They shift from being Rip Van Winkle to an insomniac zombie within just a few days.
In one of these small houses lives a man named Rip Van Winkle.
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I feel like Rip van Winkle.
Next time you see the sky you are gonna look like fuckin Rip Van Winkle.
Rip Van Winkle was a lucky man.
Caveman let us finish with all the Rip Van Winkle and get moving.
Rip Van Winkle had slept through a revolution.
Inman was particularly interested in Rip van Winkle.
I suppose Rip Van Winkle will be the other body.
I am starting to feel like Rip Van Winkle.
I feel like Rip Van Winkle here and Kevin is being weird.
It sounded like you were doing an impression of Rip Van Winkle.
If old man Rip Van Winkle Thought his long sleep was a curse.
He also appeared in several productions of Rip Van Winkle.
Rip Van Winkle is a fictional tale, yet it presents truths that can teach the readers.
In the final he finished second to Rip Van Winkle.
Rip Van Winkle - the title character and protagonist of the story.
There is also an undated sketch titled Rip Van Winkle.
Like the fictional Rip Van Winkle, other creatures also sleep for long periods of time.
I am going to follow through across the Rip Van Winkle Bridge.
Rip Van Winkle is a character who always has been, is, and always will be.
We have been asleep at the wheel like Rip Van Winkle.
What do you know? . Rip van winkle pulled it off.
She peers at him and announces that he is Rip Van Winkle.
Rip Van Winkle wakes up, development of tuberculosis treatment in the 21st century.
It is located near the approach for the Rip Van Winkle Bridge.
I suppose Rip Van Winkle will be the other body . Where is it?
The first night you basically sleep like Rip Van Winkle.
Sarah, please, I feel like rip van winkle here, and kevin is being weird.
He was the creator of such fictional characters as Ichabod Crane and Rip Van Winkle.
Caveman let ´ s finish with the Rip Van Winkle and get moving.
She began her acting career on stage appearing with Joseph Jefferson in Rip Van Winkle.
The warrior who sleeps-on, like the besotted Rip Van Winkle in the Catskill mountains.
Rip Van Winkle pulled it off. You gotta love a long shot. It's here.
You do that, nobody cares if your name is Rip Van Winkle.
And is not it Rip Van Winkle himself?
I am like that old man with the beard, Rip Van Winkle.
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Examples of using Rip
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Pa do not give a rip what they think
And rip your heart from you
Bluebeard could rip out your heart
Examples of using Winkle
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Winkle your nose and have fun
And if you have to winkle let us do it now
Bout turned me into rip van winkle
Examples of using Van
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Ops van is already in position outside the hotel
There was a news van blocking the entrance
A van load of heroin you tried to steal
