Example sentences for: burroughs

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

  • If you can conjure a mental image of Marilyn Monroe, William S. Burroughs, Frank Zappa, or Marianne Moore, chances are you're thinking of an Avedon photograph.

  • In the Wall Street Journal , Roger Kimball attacks the recently deceased William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg for their "pretentious, proselytizing pornography ...

  • I purposely hadn't reread the book before seeing the film, and furthermore resolved to forget Cronenberg's previous adaptation of a famously impossible work of literature, the contrived mess he fashioned from William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch . But as much as I enjoyed Crash the movie, I found that my keenest pleasure came from imagining the potential reactions of others.

  • Donald Lyons of the Wall Street Journal hails British playwright Mark Ravenhill as "Tarantino laced with Céline and William Burroughs."

  • The magazine prints the final entries in William S. Burroughs' journal.


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