Example sentences for: ellie

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

  • Ellie gets strapped into a metal ball and hurtles through a tunnel of space.

  • Ellie finally grows up to run a facility in New Mexico that listens for signals from outer space, and one day, as she's sitting in the desert, her headphones pick up a noise.

  • Matthew McConaughey--who plays Ellie's love interest, the ridiculously named Palmer Joss, a former priest who is now the respected author of a best-selling book about "faith" and "meaning," and who, though still in his 20s, is a trusted adviser to the president--thrusts out his lower jaw like a calendar pinup while delivering such lines as "I'm not against technology, I'm against the men who deify it at the expense of human truth!"

  • Hornby clearly means to revisit a Defining Cultural Moment, with Ellie symbolizing the peril of taking rock 'n' roll angst as a model for life.

  • She's Ellie (Jodie Foster), a brilliant, idealistic scientist who, when things go wrong, hugs her knees to her chest.


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