Example sentences for: cameo

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

  • On the upside, the book is a ripsnorting read, and Lewis "has a natural talent for spinning hilarious scenes and uncovering wicked details" (Steven Levy, Newsweek ). As Michiko Kakutani writes in the New York Times , "Lewis uses a sort of Tom Wolfe approach, enlivening his account of complicated financial deals and even more complicated engineering feats with snappy cameo portraits, exclamatory descriptions and lots of subjective judgments."

  • KSM first came to the attention of U.S. law enforcement as a result of his cameo role in the first World Trade Center bombing.

  • By all means read Fowler's delightful statement of affairs about False Scents --he generates a wonderfully, though quite unwitting, humorous cameo of writer and reader virtually calling each other fools.

  • The only really truly funny bit was Garry Shandling's cameo.

  • Seemingly terrorized by her hooting-mad, derelict father (Robert Duvall, in a hilarious cameo), Doss doffs her duds at the first opportunity and promptly has the hapless attorney on a very tight retainer.


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