Example sentences for: dovetails

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

  • The universalist language of the Declaration of Independence hardly dovetails with the parochial category of citizenship in a particular governmental polity.

  • Here you can see Hornby straining hard to live up to his reputation as an interpreter of the Zeitgeist . The novel is set in 1994, and the climax cleverly dovetails with Cobain's suicide.

  • Tom Hanks' efforts to submerge his moody-wise-guy personality dovetails movingly with his character's struggle to keep his humanity in check.

  • The pope's suggestion also dovetails with a new interest among some Protestant theologians in a "universal primate" who would serve as a focus of unity for world Christianity.

  • And it's here that the New Left's scrupulous scholarship inadvertently dovetails with the right's racist interpretations.


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