Example sentences for: outré

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

  • Though Ackerman's claims were dismissed by anti-impeachment scholars such as Lawrence Tribe, they are not without their supporters, and he has now presented them in a minibook, The Case Against Lameduck Impeachment . Another project, written with Yale colleague Anne Alstott, is even more outré.

  • I remember because the price he was asking was so outré.

  • Reality, though, must come into play, and in cases such as this there will always be a way for the outré remark to become known.

  • Ballard's complex, image-driven fiction partakes of surrealism, hovers within the orbits of sci-fi, and laps at the outré.

  • They involve Dada nose-thumbing, Expressionist brio, an American appreciation of pure funk, a flâneur 's eye for chance and juxtaposition in the streets, a sensualist's feeling for the most outré kinds of texture, and a scopophiliac's unquenchable thirst for images, all kinds, right now, from industrial logos to comic strips to postage stamps to Velázquez's Rokeby Venus . (He also, incidentally, has quite an ear, capable of doing more with a one-word title-- Rebus , Currency , Interview , Barge , Express --than most writers.)


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