Example sentences for: flicks

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

  • This was probably the most famous of the '80s teen flicks, launching as it did the careers of several of the "Brat Pack" actors--including Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, and Ally Sheedy.

  • Larger-than-life figures from the annals of organized crime--Bugsy Siegel, Al Capone--are often drafted into service when Hollywood decides to make one of its perennial gangster flicks.

  • Writers name their mostly predictable favorite flicks: John Edgar Wideman goes with Hoop Dreams and Larry Flynt picks The People vs.

  • The latest in a wash of Scream -bred teen horror flicks is roundly panned as a "disappointing adolescent thriller starring no one you ever heard of" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). Despite a promising premise--high-school students are lobotomized into conformity by a guidance counselor and their parents--the film is said to be packed with clichés (faces in windows, hands on shoulders) and lacking either an ironic or a frightening touch.

  • Stephen (31) remains consigned mainly to teen flicks (though he won acclaim for his supporting role in The Usual Suspects ). Textbook example: the 1996 comedy Bio-Dome , where he plays opposite ex-MTV star Pauly Shore.


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