Example sentences for: genial

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

  • On a brighter but no less arbitrary note, childless aristocrats picked genial Edward as their heir; he changed his name and became a snobbish landowner, kind to his less glamorous siblings but also condescending.

  • Henry Hyde, R-Ill., Capitol Hill's genial uncle, the committee reverts to type.

  • Dick Morris, for one, can't hide his unpalatable stump of a body behind the trappings of genial sensuality.

  • Hoffman uses nudity for laughs, to the point where Theseus' hunting party stumbles on the lovers in their birthday suits--a discovery that would surely result in their arrest on the spot instead of the genial interrogation provided by Shakespeare.

  • Everyone covering the race is looking for a comparison point for Bush, and I've decided it's Reagan: amiable, genial, an advocate of broad principles instead of specific policies, and blessed with good fortune and an utter coating of Teflon.


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