Example sentences for: amis

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

  • These faux amis (false friends), as they are called, are confused both by Anglophones speaking French and Francophones speaking English.

  • Like the lead guitarist of the erstwhile Dire Straits, Amis is a stolid, middle-class New Briton blessed with considerable chops, torn between worldly cynicism and a certain nostalgie de la boue , whose wish to get down and dirty is undertaken professionally but stops a bit short of conviction.

  • Martin Amis has long evinced his fascination with American culture, so it should come as no surprise that he has brought out an American novel.

  • Book -- Heavy Water , by Martin Amis.

  • After initial jeers, critics extend a warmer welcome to Martin Amis' detective novel, Night Train . "The novel draws its energies from the linguistic pyrotechnics of Nabokov and the human immensities of Bellow," says John Lanchester in The New Yorker , where Amis is regularly published.


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