Example sentences for: detail

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

  • The cinematography is alternately praised as stunning and condemned as boring, but the response to the story line is unanimous: It's a "liberal soap opera" (Richard Schickel, Time ) that consists of a "self-congratulatory anti-prejudice message, fleshed out with painstaking topographic detail" (Dennis Lim, the Village Voice ). A few critics stand up for the film, calling it a "thoughtful, evocative thriller" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (Find out more about Hawke here.)

  • This is a useful museum to visit if you have a particular interest in post-independence Greece, as many artifacts add detail to the individuals and incidents that shaped the new country.

  • The NYT reports that FBI agents visited Linda Tripp's literary agent Lucianne Goldberg in New York and USAT has the detail that in 1972 Goldberg was paid $1,000 a week by a high-level Nixon operative to spy on the McGovern campaign.

  • Once identified, such critical genes can be examined in detail and used in studies aimed at disease cures or drug screens.

  • An example: When Harvey got wind that Time magazine planned to reveal the plot twist in The Crying Game --that a character is a transvestite--Harvey called a Time editor 18 times in a single day, unsuccessfully demanding that Time not run the detail.


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