Example sentences for: arty

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

  • ending (the clues are there, but one shakes them off as arty mannerisms) but not especially frightened.

  • Five different types--a geek, a richie, a screw-up, a jock, and a sullen arty girl--are forced to spend a Saturday in detention considering who they are.

  • I haven't seen Office Space , but a few years ago at the Burning Man festival, that annual West Coast orgy of all things arty and survivalist held in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, I saw computer programmers gleefully blowing up old hard drives and monitors just for fun.

  • Now that Leonardo Di Caprio has spurned Lions Gate Films and American Psycho , the production company is trying to lure back the director it had rudely kicked off the project, Mary Harron ( I Shot Andy Warhol ). Though the whole thing was her idea in the first place, she was dropped the minute Di Caprio expressed interest and turned an arty $10-million feature into a $40-million vehicle for himself.

  • Such convolutions of phrasal meaning (an aspect of what some call intertextuality) is a common rhetorical device, especially perhaps at the arty end of journalism.


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