Example sentences for: brooklyn

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

  • Eliot's--an entry that runs on for two and a half pages), the name of just one Yiddish theatrical figure, Boris Tomashefsky , Hebrew literary works ( Zohar ), nonce formations ( money/shmoney , which takes up two pages), misspelled place names to indicate mispronunciation ( BRANzvil , for Brownsville , a section of Brooklyn), Yiddish words that are never used in English ( FUHLKStimlech `folksy,' guht `God,' ich starb `I'm dying'), encyclopedic terms ( black Jews ), and nonexistent words ( who-er “defined’ by the author as “Not exactly Yiddish, but the New Yorkish pronunciation of whore’).

  • Corot was born in 1796, and his 200 th birthday is the pretext for two mesmerizing shows in New York this fall: a wide-ranging retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a more specialized show at the Brooklyn Museum built around Corot's Italian visits.

  • The coverage says the Seattle bomb-smuggling plan reflected sophistication, although the LAT notes "a major slip-up" occurred when the man arrested in Brooklyn, although registered under an alias at a hotel in Seattle, used his real address.

  • Almost all the scenes she writes and stages are blandly generalized--a homogeneity that seems part commercial cunning (her movies go down easy, like Muzak) and part the result of being rich and snobbishly insulated on the Upper West Side of New York City, that magic kingdom where people parade their liberalism but the word "Brooklyn" is always good for a laugh and a shudder.

  • Of course, they reflected the point of view of the administration, but the reader didn't have the feeling that he was constantly being urged to buy the Brooklyn Bridge.


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