Example sentences for: dashing

How can you use “dashing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Burton relishes squirting blood in this know-it-all's face: Ichabod is the movie's dashing hero and also the butt of its jokes.

  • She flirted with one dashing boy, but she had no dowry to speak of and his parents got worried and made him move away.

  • He acquired the trademark dashing eye patch, without which he'd be just another chubby little guy with frizzy hair.

  • It's the critics who are in love: Gwyneth Paltrow is gorgeous, Joseph Fiennes is dashing, and the movie is "smart and giddily entertaining" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Fiennes' young Will Shakespeare has an affair with Paltrow's character that becomes the basis for Romeo and Juliet . Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman's screenplay is full of amusing references to Shakespeare plays, but is not so erudite that it won't please crowds, and the dialogue "percolates with bubbly finesse" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The New Yorker 's David Denby puts a slight damper on the general festivities: He says the film starts out muddled, though it livens up by the end.

  • (Of course, dear Prudie, it would have been far more pleasurable to be sitting in my hotel room and dashing off mail to you.)


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