Example sentences for: buys

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

  • The attempt to wheedle money out of the caustic and not-quite-there old man is the real glory of American Movie . As Borchardt shows Bill pictures of pretty actresses, offers him a credit as an "executive producer," buys him booze, and promises big profits and glory down the road ("I see great cinema in this."

  • Of course, Woody Allen captured this idea perfectly in Bananas , in the scene where he buys a pile of intellectual journals, and tries to slip a copy of a pornographic magazine in with them, only to have the shop owner holler, "Hey Harry, how much for a copy of Orgasm ?" Later, Allen sits on the subway, gazing at the offending item, which he has neatly tucked into the latest edition of Commentary , with an article by Irving Kristol on the cover (another favorite Woody Allen line, of course, comes in Annie Hall , when he quips that Dissent and Commentary have merged to form a new magazine called Dysentery-- I was probably one of the few 11-year-olds to laugh at that one).

  • The PGA tour buys the best golfers from Europe and Asia.

  • Indeed, it would likely be hard to find even a White House aide who, in the privacy of his/her home, would tell a spouse that he/she buys Clinton's story.

  • The Daily Newsprint reviewer writes that Titanic II: The Kitchen Sink is "a spectacular failure," and the producer buys ads declaring, " 'Spectacular'--the Daily Newsprint ." Well, not all bad habits start out in cyberspace and spread to traditional media--sometimes it happens the other way.


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