Example sentences for: busts

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

  • Kaletsky wrote, "Nobody seems to believe any longer that markets work best if businesses are simply left to their own devices or that capitalism can avoid booms and busts without active government intervention.

  • Opposite, the impressive domed Senate Chamber is lined with busts of Lafayette, Washington, and others.

  • The 750,000-volume collection is amazing, but so too is the interior of the 1849 building, which is exquisitely furnished with antiques, busts of Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, and others, and several paintings by John Singer Sargent and Gilbert Stuart.

  • But Hambrecht's Dutch-auction strategy has gotten off to a slow start because its first two IPOs, for Ravenswood Winery and Salon.com, were relative busts, at least in the sense that neither company has seen a significant gain over its offering price.

  • Today the smallest hamlets on both islands honor Schoelcher with busts, full statues, and street names.


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