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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:

The work is, of course, an hommage to the police-procedural genre for which Americans are principally known overseas.
You know the genre: I'm in a Chinese airport, with too much luggage, trying to catch a plane home and/or use a pay phone with improper currency.
Sunday's NYT "Week in Review" runs a piece about how the recent journalism scandals have produced a distinct article genre: the media career obituary.
Sweet and funny without being corny, the film "belongs to a small genre of crowd-pleasers [such as] The Full Monty and Brassed Off " (Jami Bernard, Daily News ). (Visit the official site; Slate 's David Edelstein is not charmed: "I see a future for elderly male actors willing to shed their clothes for laughs, but I don't see myself in the audience."
Avedon has done much to revive the portrait as a central genre of photographic art.