Example sentences for: columbine

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

  • (It is curious how few pundits connected Kosovo and Columbine, two stories displayed side by side on every front page for weeks--hmmm, where would these kids get these violent ideas?)

  • Time reports that lawyers are already cozying up to the parents of slain Columbine High students.

  • As for Columbine, I think the media, especially television, behaved disgracefully.

  • Columbine had the great hook: kids, especially the unfortunate girl who professed her belief in God and became an instant martyr.

  • As I see it, Columbine hit more of a cultural chord than the Atlanta murders because Americans are in turmoil about children and teen-agers: On the one hand, everyone's political agenda is rationalized as protecting children, whether it's censorship and drug testing or welfare and gun control; on the other, adults are fearful of young people, feel that they're out of control, and at the same time guilty about the many ways kids are being shortchanged in this enormously pressured, work-obsessed, and uptight environment.


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