Example sentences for: dabbling

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

  • Somebody at the base was dabbling in morbid art therapy.

  • The latest installment in the Grisham legal thriller franchise gets good press: It's "personal, moving and much deeper" than his previous books, writes Deirdre Donahue in USA Today . Critics say this one is better because Grisham goes beyond his usual dabbling in social causes and injects honest-to-God Christian spirituality, and with success: "Grisham's smart use of the suspense novel to explore questions of being and faith puts him squarely in the footsteps of Dickens and Graham Greene" ( Publishers Weekly ). A few reviewers find the overt Christianity preachy and self-righteous, but most say it improves an otherwise standard page-turner.

  • Pat Boone 's television show, GospelAmerica , was canceled after an uproar over his dabbling in heavy metal.

  • If dabbling in Holocaust denial doesn't convict Buchanan of anti-Semitism on its own, it makes a powerful case in combination with the many things he has said and written pointing to Jews as a surreptitious, sinister force in American life.

  • Alternatively, one perhaps might be into drugs , as if he were dabbling in one more little pastime whose attraction would ultimately fade as he got into something else.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast