Example sentences for: bunk

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

  • Why "Paycheck Protection" Is 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.)

  • The former chief of counterintelligence told the Washington Post that investigators targeted Lee because he is Chinese-American and that there is not a "shred of evidence" against him . However, an Energy Department official told the New York Times that the charges of racism are bunk and that only three of the 12 initial suspects in the case were of Chinese background.

  • 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.

  • The New York Daily News calls the revelations "remarkable ," but the New York Post says it's psychological bunk . ( Slate decries the excessive coverage in "," "," "," "," and ".")


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