Example sentences for: astaire

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

  • Men's skating costumes are strictly simple and symmetrical, beginning with long, black trousers that invoke Fred Astaire, even when worn with a loose, rolled-sleeved, open-necked black shirt, or with various Star Trek effects above the waist.

  • He could see Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in a gazebo in Central Park with the rain pitter-pattering around them.

  • Most stars were obliged to get on their knees and make a hand-print, but it was natural for Fred Astaire to leave a foot-print, John Wayne to leave a fist-print, and cowboy Tom Mix to leave his horse’s hoof-print.

  • Other critics' picks: performances by James Brown and ZZ Top (though the New York Times ' Richard Sandomir complained that they lip-synced badly); an ad showing a digitized Fred Astaire dancing with a Dirt Devil vacuum; and a Visa Check Card commercial starring Bob Dole.

  • Since the mid-1940s, when he went to Paris to capture the revitalization of French couture--a moment captured in Stanley Donen's 1957 film Funny Face , for which Avedon served as visual consultant, and in which Fred Astaire plays a fey, charming photographer named Dick Avery--Avedon has produced a staggering corpus of fashion and commercial photography.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast