Example sentences for: acclaim

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

  • The "Templeton Prize for Inspiring Movies and TV" (now renamed the "Epiphany Prize") gives $25,000 to movies and TV shows that acclaim faith.

  • Acclaim for the former Times reporter's historical epic, completed just before his suicide in June.

  • Unanimous acclaim for the Australian Booker Prize-winner's update of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations . "An audacious and wholly successful act of writerly reinvention" (Marc Carnegie, the Wall Street Journal ). Reviewers praise the way Carey re-examines the oppressive aspects of Victorian England and Victorian literature, even as he spins a crack adventure story.

  • Life Is Beautiful, written and directed by and starring Italian Roberto Benigni (he starred in Down by Law , 1986), has won international acclaim for wedding sentimental, Chaplinesque slapstick to a story that finishes up in a concentration camp with Jews being gassed and roasted.

  • Choreographer Matthew Bourne's re-engineered "gay Swan Lake " played for six months in London (the longest continuous run of any ballet there) and eight weeks in Los Angeles and is now basking in critical acclaim on Broadway.


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