Example sentences for: collage

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

  • Cobbling multiple cuts of film into a snappy collage, the first 13 seconds seem to prepare you for a hair-care pitch, not a drug advisory.

  • Some see Gallo as the heir to Scorsese and the '70s neorealists, with the "audacity and flair of a major filmmaker" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). They applaud his stylistic flourishes (collage shots, freeze frames), his self-deprecating humor, and audacious premise--a newly released prisoner kidnaps a teen tap dancer (Christina Ricci) to be his fake wife.

  • Threading the collage is the word "freedom," presented on the unlikeliest of canvases--on a scrap caught on a wire fence, on the black-leather back of a biker's jacket, on a green road sign.

  • The migratory quality of lyrics--the fact that lines and whole verses traveled from this song to that one, from blues to mountain ballad or vice versa, regardless of origin or even sense--made for a sort of native Surrealism, a collage by accretion.

  • However, the courts strictly police the unlicensed "sampling" of music (the insertion of a passage into another artist's musical collage).


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