Example sentences for: dracula

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

  • In the original Dracula novel, the hero notices Count Dracula's "peculiarly sharp white teeth" that "protruded over the lips" almost at once.

  • In his baroque homage to the book, Coppola apparently could not muster the will to portray the character with such a pronounced overbite, and so Dracula's fangs descend only periodically, amid so much gaping mouth movement that the count looks like he's coughing up a hairball.

  • In the 1931 Dracula , however, which like Nosferatu is based on Bram Stoker's novel, Bela Lugosi has to be impaled through the heart in his coffin, whereupon he emits a strange little disappointed groan that remains a benchmark of decorum when compared with the hissing and writhing deaths of modern screen vampires.

  • Occasionally, the identity of a dedicatee has remained a mystery for years, with speculation bandied back and forth endlessly in Notes and Queries . Evidently, Bram Stoker's dedication of Dracula (1897) was such a one:

  • Most pundits agree that Congress doesn't want the report until after the elections--Richard Ben-Veniste ( Meet the Press ) gets off the crack that Congress awaits a report as "Dracula awaits the sun."


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