Example sentences for: devlin

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

  • Artificial intelligence expert Keith Devlin wrote that a computer will never be able to tell the difference between "time flies like an arrow" and "fruit flies like honey."

  • Critics say they'll take the marketing campaign ("Size Does Matter") over the $130 million remake of the 1954 classic, from Independence Day creators Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich.

  • As my friend Rachel Devlin, a historian at Tulane University, points out, after World War II most industrial companies fired the women workers in their plants, even though they would work for less than men, in order to restore the status quo that had prevailed before the war.

  • As Devlin's example shows, this is easier in theory than in practice.

  • Devlin and Emmerich's Godzilla is accused of being annoyingly Spielbergian and lacking personality as well as wits: "Any forefather (and, given his reproductive capacities, foremother) of a new species that chooses to travel halfway around the globe to lay his eggs in the middle of Manhattan doesn't seem built to survive, evolutionarily speaking" (David Edelstein, Slate ). The film's failure (it's doing relatively poorly at the box office) may also be due to overexposure to disaster movies.


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