Example sentences for: americana

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

  • Amusing roadside Americana is basically a bad restaurant in the shape of a big chicken.

  • a piece of celestial Americana" (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Maslin calls it "a supremely improbable triumph," all the more powerful because the film's "wholesome radiance and soothing natural beauty are distinctly at odds with the famously unwholesome Lynch imagination" (the New York Times ). Turan is the only one who hears the faint sucking of Dennis Hopper's oxygen mask in the background, calling the film "too mannered and weird around the edges to be convincing" (the Los Angeles Times ). (Lynchnet has a page devoted to the film complete with trailers and pictures shot on location.)

  • Collectors of Americana also savor Braggadocio, Missouri, the Humptulips River in Washington, Hen Scratch, Florida, Dead Bastard Peak, Wyoming, Two Teats, California, or Aswaguschwadic, Maine.

  • Frontier Americana Lickskillet, Ohio and Tennessee Gnaw Bone, Indiana Turkey Scratch, Arkansas Dunmovin, California Rawhide, Mississippi Cut and Shoot, Texas Hoot and Holler Crossing, Texas Horse Thief, Arizona Jackass Flats, Nevada Hell and Gone Creek, Oklahoma

  • Rodman's was hard-core Americana, with the influence of American slavery.


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