Example sentences for: bogart

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

  • Either Bogart or Cagney must have said, “You ain't gonna pin this rap on me!

  • In fact, it's the older gangster pictures that romanticize the charismatic crooks portrayed by Bogart, Cagney, Robinson, et al.

  • There are traditional cowboys and tough guys on the list, but the former (as in Stagecoach , 1939, and The Searchers , 1956) is limited mostly to John Wayne, and the latter (as in The Maltese Falcon , 1941) to Humphrey Bogart; and you get the sense these films were chosen more out of nostalgia for their stars than for their dramatic power.

  • I doubt that it is accurate to define gunsel as a `callow youth,' a sense that probably rubbed off from the character played by Elisha Cook, Jr. in The Maltese Falcon: though he was referred to (by Bogart, as I recall) as a `punk' and `gunsel' and was portrayed as ineffectual, that does not justify a transferred definition: gunsel , probably from Yiddish, is a less common, old-fashioned term for `gunman, body guard, torpedo, hit man,' and the like, simply a `criminal who carries a gun,' and needs no (additional) pejorative treatment.

  • Bandito Number One, in the person of Alfonso Bedoya, calls out to Bogart, Oiga Señor: We are the Federales.


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