Example sentences for: amy

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

  • Movie -- Chasing Amy ;

  • The divorcing Amy is marginally more believable as a woman whose life has taken a scary new turn than the unflappable single Syd ever was--Amy gets flustered; she doesn't know what to wear; her clothes don't seem designed to show off an improbably sculpted body, as Syd's do; she has no pat reasons for having left her husband; her mom, played by Tyne Daly, is pitch-perfect as the smart, confident older woman who quashes her daughter (she's a more compelling character than Syd's father, a wan veterinarian who can do no wrong); and Amy's own daughter--well, Amy's daughter is unbearable, a stereotypical know-it-all TV tyke.

  • Dissenters include Amy Gamerman of the Wall Street Journal , who says it's dated ("Salesman is showing its age") and Slate 's Jacob Weisberg, who praises this production but calls the play itself "unrelieved and unchallenging."

  • Syd and Amy don't go home to become homemakers or marry high-school sweethearts.


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