Example sentences for: elvis

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

  • As Sam Phillips, Elvis' first producer, said, "If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars."

  • The advent of Elvis was in large part an attack on Sinatra and his generation, a way of saying no to people sitting on wooden stools under a spotlight crooning insincerely.

  • Chatterbox's proof was that the first rock 'n' roll records that reached a large, mainstream audience--Bill Haley and the Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" and Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel"--were released in 1955 and 1956.

  • Critics cite Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe as examples.

  • Kaufman's Elvis imitation came before the King died and well before Elvis imitators were legion.


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