Example sentences for: dracula

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

  • Gary Oldman turns himself into some sort of gigantic hominid-bat creature and flaps about in Dracula . The Vampire Master in John Carpenter's Vampires can fly down the road fast enough to catch a speeding car and can stick to the ceiling of a motel room.

  • 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.

  • In Bram Stoker's Dracula , by contrast, the new recruit must also drink the vampire's blood, but the transformation is far pokier, requiring weeks and weeks, and if the vampire happens to get stuck with a bowie knife before the process is completed, it immediately goes into reverse.

  • 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."

  • 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.


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