Example sentences for: forays

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

  • The forays into science fiction are said to have "the unfortunate effect of liberating all [Vidal's] worst artistic impulses" (James Bowman, the Wall Street Journal ). Vidal does win praise for caustic portrayals of dead presidents--with all the "freaks and foibles"--of the sort he has brought to his other historical fiction (Christopher Benfey, the New York Times Book Review ).

  • Many contemporary laboratories examining vision, studying either perception or the activity of neurons, now incorporate designed, complicated, yet highly controlled stimuli that have evolved (knowingly or not) from Bela's original forays in the 1960s and 1970s.

  • The band's black-nationalist stance was followed by forays into anti-Semitism, misogyny, and anti-white racism.

  • The New Yorker 's Louis Menand calls Paradise "the strangest and most original book that Morrison has written," then criticizes it for its lack of cohesion, its failed forays into magical realism, and its willful allegorizing.

  • Many of his forays "beyond impressionism," as the curators point out, anticipate some of the titans of 20 th -century art.


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