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Example sentences for: funk

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burst, goes the story, consumers and investors went into a funk that has depressed the economy, and the depressed economy has perpetuated the funk.
The radio-friendly singles on Spiceworld are watered-down versions of popular pop genres--disco, funk, world beat, Motown, etc.
Britannica . Microsoft and Funk & Wagnalls' Encarta is now the leading encyclopedia in the multimedia market, whereas Britannica is up for sale.)
There is also a Bibliography of sorts: the OED was, but the OED2e was not consulted; Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable was, perhaps somewhat uncritically; and, among works that either fail to reflect the latest scholarship, are not pertinent to the task set, or are just plain awful, the following are listed: Wilfred Funk's Word Origins and Their Romantic Stories , (a 1978 reprint of a 1950 work); Universal Dictionary of the English Language (1897); a modern selection from Johnson's Dictionary (1755); Partridge's Origins (1977), a work long criticized for its errors; and Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language (1965), which is a $15 reprint, cursorily updated, of the 19th-century Ogilvie edition of Annandale's Dictionary .
Rolling Stone , the Washington Times , and just about everyone in between adore Beck's tribute to '70s funk (with countless '90s styles including hip-hop and country mixed in).