Example sentences for: barton

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

  • You write that Barton's day-trading career is emblematic of the "glitz-and-greed '90s" and that Americans are "abandoning safe investments in the quest for instant riches."

  • Mark Barton bludgeoned his wife and children to death, shot nine workers at day trading investment firms, and then committed suicide.

  • I loved the small authoritative details like Barton "hunched in silence over his usual cafeteria-lunch fare of a turkey burger and fries."

  • I'm thinking in particular of Frances McDormand's unflappable pregnant cop in Fargo ; John Turturro's Barton Fink, the mediocre leftist playwright who tries to go Hollywood; and in the new film, Jeff Bridges' incarnation of Jeff Lebowski, a k a the Dude, an amiable stoner who is drawn into a Big Sleep -inspired kidnap scheme.

  • Their movies-- Blood Simple , Raising Arizona , Miller's Crossing , Barton Fink , The Hudsucker Proxy , Fargo, and now The Big Lebowski --have been eccentric in the best sense, avoiding both mainstream studio practices and the indie mentality that mindlessly reacts against them.


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