Example sentences for: bunk

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

  • Even though 90 percent of all new bunk beds sold conform to the voluntary standards, Newsday reported last month that the commission's staff is now recommending mandatory standards.

  • Let me toss one more idea on the fire as I walk out the door: The notion that journalists have "lost touch with their communities" is utter bunk.

  • Critics call it preposterous and filled with baffling inconsistencies, or as Roger Ebert writes, "[m]ovies like this are particularly vulnerable to logic" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). Words such as "ridiculous" and "absurd" pepper the reviews: It's "fire-and-brimstone bunk, a tired compendium of involuntary crucifixions, grim messages carved into human flesh, fly buzzings, ominous choral chants on the soundtrack and at least one head twisting" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). (Click here to find out how religious leaders persuaded the filmmakers to change the story's ending.)

  • These findings only strengthen his conviction that economics is bunk.

  • Critics revel in his elegant deflation of bunk theories, finding in his work "qualities in increasingly short supply in academic circles: old-fashioned moral rigor and plain old common sense" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). Some regret that Rosenbaum does not proffer his own theory clarifying the mysterious origins of Hitler's evil.


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