Example sentences for: fin

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

  • It doesn't do much good to come along and say, well, the encrustation of cut-out porno photos has a decorative quality that recalls Gustave Moreau's overloaded, quasi- (queasy) mystical images of the (last) fin de siècle ? Better would be to compare and contrast it with other art brut and with other blasphemous imagery.

  • The pectoral fin is larger than a half-moon, with a flange narrower than its muscle mass.

  • Others continue to dismiss his work as sappy and say he "can't paint very well" (Mark Stevens, New York ). Time 's Robert Hughes says Burne-Jones has become popular because "confrontational Modernism is losing its mandate in our fin de siècle ." (Click here for Christopher Benfey's review of the show in Slate .)

  • (To sample some bona fide fin de siècle art and poetry, click here.)

  • The pectoral fin flange is now equal to or wider than the fin's muscular disc.


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