Example sentences for: epic

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

  • Musical rhythms were traditionally matched to the complex cadences of the epic poetry of Greece.

  • 5 lasts only 35 minutes--no longer than a Mozart symphony--but it has the feel of something weighty, sprawling, and epic.

  • DeLillo's epic of Cold War America--which juxtaposes Russia's atomic bomb with Bobby Thompson's Shot Heard Round the World, a Lenny Bruce concert, and a lost Sergei Eisenstein film--is pronounced a "masterwork" (Tom LeClair, the Atlantic Monthly ). DeLillo wins praise for his witty prose and inventive historical fiction, which includes such postwar celebrities as Frank Sinatra and J. Edgar Hoover.

  • The players are Brobdingnagians, and their conflicts, aptly epic.

  • In fact, watching Irma Vep , my thoughts kept drifting to Luc Besson's shambolic, would-be epic, which represents the real dead end of French cinema.


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