Example sentences for: epic

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

  • University of New Orleans historian and best-selling author Stephen Ambrose is credited as a consultant on Stephen Spielberg's World War II epic Saving Private Ryan . But Ambrose did his consulting after the film was completed.

  • Onomatopoeia has a long, honorable, and pleasurable history—from Aristophanes' brek-ke-kex ko-ax ko-ax to Kermit's ribbet, ribbet —from majestic lines in ancient epic poetry to simple, homey words like plop, splash , and murmur . In every language and time, the sound and look of some words have given clues to their meaning: their sound has suggested their sense.

  • A few shadowy details have been left to us by the Romans and by an epic poem from the seventh century.

  • The two villains of the movie are a homicidal (and simiocidal) cheetah and an English hunter--the Evil White Male without which no PC epic would be complete.

  • Poland’s war-torn and almost incomprehensibly fractured history plays out like an epic novel — occasionally triumphant, frequently sad and tragic.


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