Example sentences for: denzel

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

  • Critics rank Spike Lee's Oedipal basketball drama--starring Denzel Washington as a convict and the NBA's Ray Allen as his estranged son--at the top of his oeuvre . After paying Lee's recent films scant attention, they declare him "underrated" and "overlooked" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). They're pleased to find that Allen can act, that Washington has a mean streak, and that Lee critiques capitalism more than he does racism.

  • Denzel Washington and Annette Bening (FBI and CIA operatives, respectively) are said to be good but not great.

  • In this case, Denzel Washington plays a homicide detective named John Hobbes who pays a visit to a killer just before his execution.

  • Denzel Washington delivers a knockout performance as Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer who spent 20 years in jail for a crime he did not commit.

  • Here the convict is Jake Shuttlesworth (Denzel Washington), and his mission is to go into the projects of Coney Island, where his son Jesus (played by the 22-year-old Milwaukee Bucks guard Ray Allen) is a high-school basketball player of near divine abilities.


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