Example sentences for: funk

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

  • Britannica . Microsoft and Funk & Wagnalls' Encarta is now the leading encyclopedia in the multimedia market, whereas Britannica is up for sale.)

  • They involve Dada nose-thumbing, Expressionist brio, an American appreciation of pure funk, a flâneur 's eye for chance and juxtaposition in the streets, a sensualist's feeling for the most outré kinds of texture, and a scopophiliac's unquenchable thirst for images, all kinds, right now, from industrial logos to comic strips to postage stamps to Velázquez's Rokeby Venus . (He also, incidentally, has quite an ear, capable of doing more with a one-word title-- Rebus , Currency , Interview , Barge , Express --than most writers.)

  • The band's ensemble structure seemed to prefigure the black music cooperatives then being set up in Chicago, St. Louis, and Los Angeles, as well as such emerging family funk bands as Sly and the Family Stone.

  • Pat Caddell fashioned Carter's "malaise" speech, blaming the people for the funk we were in (recalling the Brecht remark: the people are against the government; the government has to change the people), and now Sidney Blumenthal.

  • ' ” Discussion with my gun-loving friends supports Funk's penultimate etymology.


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