Example sentences for: dashing

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

  • Candeloro also avoided prolonged whirls in midair, offering some dashing 17 th -century mimed swordplay instead.

  • It's the critics who are in love: Gwyneth Paltrow is gorgeous, Joseph Fiennes is dashing, and the movie is "smart and giddily entertaining" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Fiennes' young Will Shakespeare has an affair with Paltrow's character that becomes the basis for Romeo and Juliet . Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman's screenplay is full of amusing references to Shakespeare plays, but is not so erudite that it won't please crowds, and the dialogue "percolates with bubbly finesse" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The New Yorker 's David Denby puts a slight damper on the general festivities: He says the film starts out muddled, though it livens up by the end.

  • The dashing, rather coarse cotton Punjabi phulkari shawls are made from fabric with patterns in orange, pink, green, red, and yellow.

  • So imagine our happy surprise when we saw Twain's "secret wedding album" in the Star 's Aug. 17 issue, including no fewer than six shots of the dashing groom himself.

  • Late in the book, Lewis remarks bitterly on press coverage that referred to Bond as "light-skinned, dashing, erudite, articulate" and to Lewis as "short, squat, thick-necked, balding, dark, scowling, a sharecropper's son."


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