Example sentences for: conan

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

  • This week's show--in which anchorman Pearce McKenzie (Robert Foxworth) starts doing guest spots on the Conan O'Brien show--is just plain stupid, relying heavily on dopey sight gags and potty humor.

  • The New York Times asked screenwriter John Milius for his opinion, and the Conan the Barbarian scribe said it sounded just fine to him.

  • Critics see this biopic about Robert E. Howard, the author of the Conan the Barbarian stories, as an occasion to wax confessional, particularly on the subject of the writing life: "It's rare to see the basic conditions of a writer's existence--the solitude, the panic, the neediness, the unhealthy self-absorption--portrayed so starkly," says The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty.

  • 2) Why is Ralph Vaughan Williams listed under Vaughan Williams but Sir Arthur Conan Doyle appears under Doyle?

  • Loose ends: (a) While we're on the subject, or at least next door to it—or at any rate, before we leave its vicinity—let this be said for the record: Nowhere in the works of Arthur Conan Doyle does arch-sleuth Sherlock Holmes ever actually say, Elementary, my dear Watson.


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