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Example sentences for: genre

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

Wayne had the good luck to rule over Westerns, a genre that was set on wide-open land and commemorated the past and dealt in stark moral truths--a genre doomed to grow obsolete, leaving Wayne to dominate the landscape, a proud and lonely warrior.
He has always borrowed from the genre, but his scary motifs were leavened with homey ones--with elements inspired by cartoons, Dr. Seuss, and tacky Japanese giant-monster flicks.
We try to recapture them with genre schlock, as though the dream world of our youth were a tacky theme park.
(David Plotz's "" of a generic man of the year deflates the genre.)
If you are going to criticize critics, you have to be a better critic than he is in this essentially unresearched piece, which is excellent only as an example of the off the top of the head thumb-sucker genre.