Example sentences for: duncan

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

  • "It is going to help us out tremendously with our program," said Kathy Duncan at West Texas Legal Services. "

  • Roger: Doubtless Elvis will be responding to you about Michael Clarke Duncan in The Green Mile , but I've got to say I flinched when I read that "his function is essentially to absorb and process white pain, suffering, disease and guilt, which he does visibly--which is a novel change from the decades of films in which black characters have done the same thing invisibly."

  • -- Thomas S. Duncan , M.D.

  • [ 1] In 1994, Matchar and Duncan [ 2] claimed that each year there are ≈ 550,000 strokes in the US, causing 150,000 deaths and leaving 300,000 survivors disabled.

  • Some are moved by the film's themes of redemption and spirituality; Roger Ebert says it's full of "vivid characters, humor, outrage and emotional release" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). Less kind reviews note the "inadvertently racist overtones" of the relationship between Hanks and Duncan (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) and say the movie has the "suffocating deliberateness of a river of molasses" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). (David Edelstein the movie in Slate : "not all of the movie is melodramatic, pseudo-mystical drivel--only about two hours and 15 minutes."


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