Example sentences for: authentic

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

  • Today it is possible to buy cheap papyrus printed with gaudy Egyptian scenes in almost every souvenir shop in the country, but some of the most authentic are sold at The Pharaonic Village in Cairo where the papyrus is grown, processed, and hand-painted on site.

  • Can a documentary use scripted scenes and yet remain ontologically authentic?

  • artefact, artefacts [sic]...impressive, authentic... priceless, deathless...aboriginal, religious, cultural eye, eyes...bluish, (china-) blue, sea-blue, brunet, almond, (liquid-) brown, ginger-brown...

  • Now, people have been proclaiming the death of bohemia ever since a 19 th -century Parisian, Henri Murger, wrote a book that would become an opera that would become synonymous with the artistic life right up to the moment when the whole concoction was boiled down to corn syrup in the Broadway musical Rent . Jerrold Seigel, the author of an excellent history of bohemianism, Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life 1830-1930 (1986), says that when people go around saying bohemia is dead, what they usually mean is that they can't see how to wiggle free of commercialism and convention: "People experience bohemia as a form of authentic existence."

  • Ang Lee's drama about suburban sexual promiscuities is lauded as an authentic depiction of 1970s emotional drift.


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