Example sentences for: american-style

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

  • Before your tour you get into your uniform, including your bonnet (helmet--but never the flat cap used on motorized patrol), your stick (truncheon, including the new American-style nightsticks), and your uniform jacket (not strictly a jargon term, but another case of police-public divide, in that the public nearly always call it a tunic , which is never used by the police themselves).

  • Still, if the French persist in wanting to make this kind of American-style blockbuster, they should study his performance, which is neither serious nor facetious but something--intangibly American--in between.

  • The paper's tone was more funeral dirge than rallying cry: "One of the more regrettable consumer fads of the 1990s has been the invasion of ersatz American-style coffee bars, all stainless steel and froth and cool.

  • Heinz Co. and owner of the Irish Independent Newspapers group, the daily Independent of London said it was adopting, for the first time in Britain, an American-style editorial system, with an "editor" in charge of news and an "editor-in-chief" in charge of comment.

  • It would be folly for a visitor to expect American-style efficiency or speedy service; it would be wisest to slip into the casual drift of things West Indian.


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