Example sentences for: criticize

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

  • It would be naïve to criticize a fiction writer for fabricating fictions; that's what a novelist does for a living.

  • The folks behind DARE, TNR says, suppress studies showing that it doesn't work and harass academics and journalists who criticize it.

  • Such comments prompted some committee members to criticize Greenspan for being insensitive to working Americans.

  • It has stu-freakin'-pendous special effects, hipster sang-froid out the wazoo and a story line that makes only as much sense as it has to" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). A grudgingly appreciative Janet Maslin says that at its best the movie brings "Hong Kong action style home to audiences in a mainstream American adventure with big prospects as a cult classic and with the future very much in mind" (the New York Times ). Others criticize the convoluted story line and call it strictly genre and strictly for "guys in their teens and 20s, for whom the script's pretentious mumbo-jumbo of undergraduate mythology, religious mysticism and technobabble could even be a plus rather than a dramatic liability" (Todd McCarthy, Daily Variety ). (To see the trailer and some fine Keanu pics, visit this fan site; check out David Edelstein's in Slate .)

  • But the baby is only going to be this cute and want to play dinosaur for about 10 seconds before she grows up enough to get mean and criticize my hair like the others.


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