Example sentences for: billy

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

  • On television, Alf Garnett (the original of America's Archie Bunker) gave bloody such currency that the British Board of Film Censors allowed the word in Billy Liar (1963), with an A certificate.

  • Deemed particularly offensive are the skewed camera angles and choppy editing--"the Big Fat Over-Produced and Over-Directed Oliver Stone treatment" (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). The plot--which has Sean Penn stranded in a bizarre desert town and caught between a real-estate mogul (Nick Nolte) and his stepdaughter/wife (Jennifer Lopez), each of whom asks him to murder the other--is called "a primer in hard-boiled clichés" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). Exempted from the general drubbing is Billy Bob Thornton's funny turn as an unhygienic redneck mechanic.

  • Others honored include Anne Frank, Billy Graham, Princess Diana, and Che Guevara.

  • In Threesome (1994), Stephen participates in a ménage à trois . (A very Baldwin coincidence: Both Stephen's Threesome and Billy's Three of Hearts [1993] are about bisexual love triangles.)

  • Billy Tauzin saying, "You see he's lied to me personally on a very serious matter," referring, says the paper, to the energy tax in the 1993 budget deal.


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