Example sentences for: flurry

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

  • In addition to laying the groundwork for "post-colonial" studies as an area of inquiry, the book inspired a flurry of scholarship devoted to "the other"--to groups of people who, by virtue of race, gender, sexuality, or geographical location, are unable to represent themselves and so (to echo the line from Karl Marx that serves as the book's epigraph) "must be represented" by those more powerful.

  • One day Clinton's hypertrophied faith in his ability to pull anything out of the fire with a flurry of last-minute salesmanship will prove wrong.

  • The new flurry of efforts to broker a diplomatic solution to the Kosovo crisis alarmed the British conservative newspapers Monday.

  • Peace hopes run highest in Germany, where Die Welt and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung both led Wednesday with upbeat reports on the new flurry of diplomatic activity over Kosovo.

  • He and his party learned the hard way that they were better off cooperating with Democrats on things the country wants, and trying to share the credit--hence the recent flurry of legislation passed with bipartisan support: welfare reform, health-care portability, and the minimum-wage increase.


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