Example sentences for: dracula

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

  • His last dozen films have ranged from bombastic dreck ( Bram Stoker's Dracula , The Godfather Part III , The Cotton Club ) to infantile dreck ( Jack , Captain Eo ) to biographical dreck ( Tucker: The Man and His Dream ) to pretentious dreck ( One From the Heart , New York Stories ). He has also been producer for an astonishing volume of bad cinema and television, including NBC's The Odyssey ; the 1992 movie Wind ; and White Dwarf , a sci-fi movie for Fox.

  • It fails to recognize acknowledged classic films (such as Dracula , 1931) and major filmmakers (such as Buster Keaton) and instead includes many more recent box office successes such as Jaws (1975) and Tootsie (1982); that makes it a stupid list.

  • A Hungarian (Sandor Szavost) who whirls Alice around on the dance floor while purring suave come-ons is like Dracula out of a Mel Brooks parody, and Kidman's giggly responses (she's supposed to be drunk) recall Melanie Griffith at her most airheaded.

  • 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.

  • 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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