Example sentences for: brooklyn

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

  • As a child, according to one story, Bennett's mother paid him a nickel for every day he didn't get into a fight back in Flatbush, the tough Brooklyn neighborhood where he and younger brother William grew up before the family moved to Washington.

  • Mass commitment to urbanism has never existed in the United States--even in New York, which seems more urban than it really is because it annexed most of its suburbs (that is, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island) long ago.

  • What I was writing about was your initial discussion of art and funding, as represented by the Brooklyn Museum dispute.

  • "Sensation"--the show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is trying to quash by threatening to withdraw city funding from the institution--is not the first exhibition of so-called "sick stuff" to be shown by a publicly funded New York cultural institution during his seven-year tenure.

  • The Brooklyn Museum of Art filed suit to prevent New York City from withdrawing its funding.


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