Example sentences for: divas

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

  • After winning Best Director at Cannes and making a splash at the New York Film Festival, Pedro Almodóvar's ode to women opens to gushing praise: "the most moving film of his career" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). A single mother whose teen-age son is suddenly killed makes a pilgrimage to track down the boy's father and in the process encounters women from all walks of life--transsexuals, pregnant nuns, divas, and more.

  • The taste for the grandiose musical spectacle has spread all across the Western world, but the greatest stars and divas need a triumph at La Scala for true consecration.

  • The same goes for cultural choices: Boston residents who indulge their taste for Canadian divas do undermine the prospects of local singer-songwriters and might be collectively better off if local radio stations had some kind of cultural content rule.

  • Tequilas Le Club, located in the old section of town, is a long-standing Acapulco cabaret that offers two female impersonator shows nightly — one “international” version, with the later show featuring Latin divas.

  • At $500,000 a year, Met General Manager Joseph Volpe is well paid, but not absurdly so, for someone who runs a $150 million-a-year business and has to deal with malingering divas instead of deferential corporate vice presidents.


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