Example sentences for: coen

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

  • It might have been a howl if performed by, say, the troupe of artsy German nihilists in Joel and Ethan Coen's The Big Lebowski (1998).

  • It's precisely because Coen is a filmmaker that no resident of Contemporary Short Fictionland will give this book its due.

  • My father-in-law got me Ethan Coen's short-story collection Gates of Eden for Christmas because I'm so fond of the Coen brothers' movies.

  • "Cheech & Chong bumbling about in Philip Marlowe's gumshoes," writes Rita Kempley of the Washington Post . The negative spin: Like other Coen films, this one is clever but rambling and undisciplined.

  • Here I'm thinking of Mark Lindquist in the Times Book Review ("while Ethan Coen [qua screenwriter] isn't quite as stylish with language as his brother is with a camera, he does have a distinctive voice and an offbeat worldview") or Renee Graham in the Boston Globe ("As with his films, his failures are often almost as interesting as other writers' successes."


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