Example sentences for: aura

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

  • The cover story argues that Bill Bradley and John McCain are "hawking this year's hottest commodity: the aura of authenticity."

  • Then he has another set of rules derived from his high-school English teacher, Miss Martinet, about double negatives, final prepositions, and other unquestionables that have an aura of Mount Sinai.

  • In the modern age, and especially in the modern newspaper, the pursuit of money takes on the full aura that was, in a bygone time, reserved for the pursuit of something else.

  • Quite aside from its religious aura, the new theory contradicted their belief in the infinity and eternity of matter--one of the axioms of Lenin's dialectical materialism--and was accordingly dismissed as "idealistic."

  • And Dowd who speculates about what kind of a president Tom Hanks would make, and who calls Al Gore "the Saving Private Ryan of presidential candidates"--meaning that the aura of inevitability that surrounds him now may turn out to be a curse in 2000.


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