Example sentences for: flirting

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

  • Stephen Buyer, R-Ind., seems to be flirting with Rep.

  • Bill Wyman asserted that Liz Phair is trying to maintain an indie sensibility while flirting with mainstream commercial music.

  • Excellent coverage all around for this offbeat Gulf War adventure-drama directed by David O. Russell ( Flirting With Disaster ). The "blisteringly funny" story of a group of soldiers who plot to steal hidden Iraqi bullion "works both as a rousing action adventure movie and as a subversion of the genre" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). The stars, George Clooney, Ice Cube, Mark Wahlberg, and Spike Jonze, all give excellent turns, but the director is universally singled out: He has created "some kind of weird masterpiece" that "sings with the exhilaration of pure filmmaking" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Strangely enough, the one negative review comes from the New York Times ' usually chipper Janet Maslin, who complains that the wacky camera style and tricks with film stock are "inadvertently distracting" and that the film doesn't pick up speed until the second half, when it's "too little, too late."

  • After flirting with a return to communism, party bosses retook power in 1992.

  • Our first diarist is David O. Russell, writer and director of Flirting With Disaster . Our second diarist will be novelist Muriel Spark.


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