Example sentences for: ben

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

  • Critics call this piece of early '80s nostalgia a "dismally unfunny farce" (Todd McCarthy, Daily Variety ). There are plenty of interesting stars (Christina Ricci, Courtney Love, Ben Affleck, Janeane Garofalo), but the script, which follows a gaggle of young folks on their way to a New Year's Eve bash in Manhattan's East Village, is said to be unsalvageable.

  • His ability to act out a conversation among five people leads the New York Times ' Ben Brantley to conclude that "[t]here's a whole city inside this young man's slender frame."

  • On the LAT op-ed page, columnist Richard Reeves digs up a Ben Franklin-style memo Nixon wrote to himself, that he violated with just about every waking breath: "Need to be good to do good.

  • "The moral and emotional questions she asks do not admit of such neatness," says the New York Times Book Review 's Ben Macintyre.

  • As Ben Yagoda writes in the New York Times Book Review , "somewhere along the way, Kidder must have decided not to write a book about Tommy O'Connor."


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