Example sentences for: airs

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

  • gyaru-oyaji `girl daddy': middle-aged man with the airs and interests of a teenage girl'

  • Critics comb the new songs for details about the group's squabbles: Fleetwood Mac airs "every piece of dirty laundry they had" (Jim Farber, Entertainment Weekly ). (Audio and video clips are available here.)

  • Some critics find the entire book flawed: "a classic example of what happens when an ill-equipped journalist assumes the airs of sober scholarship.

  • First, the word "ebonics," which dates back to the early 1970s and has been used even in some public-school settings without controversy for years, may seem to be putting on airs, but what many linguists prefer to call "Black English Vernacular" or "African-American Vernacular English" is a major linguistic stream that has been flowing within recognizable channels for centuries.

  • A Gallant character who cultivates decadent aristocratic airs or tries too hard to hold on to Puritan freshness is at best a self-punishing neurotic, at worst a fool.


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