Example sentences for: freaks

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

  • What I meant in saying that techno has cultural-political significance is that it's the medium of a counterculture; techno fans are looking for ecstasy (I mean the state of mind, not the drug, though that too), for a kind of erotic communalism that's basically missing from the larger culture right now ... but where the '60s counterculture was anti-technological (even though rock 'n' roll was totally dependent on technology), this one resonates with the techno-utopianism of computer freaks (I'm not saying the techno audience is computer freaks or overlaps with them, I really have no idea, just that there's a common impulse there).

  • The '50s begat Happy Days ; the '60s, The Wonder Years ; the '70s, That '70s Show ; and the '80s, Freaks and Geeks . In 20 years, the 1990s will be distilled into a set of reductive clichés and processed into a TV sitcom.

  • In rare cases that irony is underlined, as in Drugstore Cowboy (1989), in which the title character (Matt Dillon) stops using drugs and seems suddenly smaller and more vulnerable--and easy prey for the freaks he had previously dominated.

  • Parents, often speed freaks themselves, who are totally uninvolved in their kids' lives.

  • His book has not been written for people like me, and its real impact will have to be judged when it gets into the hands of those intended readers who are not already onomastic freaks.


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