Example sentences for: buff

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

  • Even if you’re not an archaeology buff who wants to understand the meaning of every stone, it’s worth at least an hour or two to stand among the debris of an empire and wonder whether Fifth Avenue, Piccadilly, the Champs-Elysées, or Red Square will look any better 2,000 years from now.

  • Meanwhile, on the USAT front Barbara Bush mounts a defense of George W.'s gravitas: "People don't know that he is a very smart history buff and that's what he reads."

  • He's also a crime buff, and whenever his official duties take him within 50 feet of a jewel theft, murder or art forgery, Camden can't help turning amateur sleuth."

  • In Corpus Christi , the disciple characters are thinly sketched versions of familiar clichés: the taciturn hairdresser, the buff male hustler, the yuppie lawyer.

  • Critics call this painfully predictable and clichéd futuristic sci-fi film a "mechanical, violent military-porn fantasy"(Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ): Shane meets Terminator meets Road Warrior . An extremely buff Kurt Russell plays the title soldier of the future who, when decommissioned, is relegated to the horrors of the slag heap planet, where he discovers human emotion and rises to the defense of his fellow outcasts.


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