Example sentences for: gratuitous

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

  • "The Boogie Nights of the fake-boob industry" (Bruce Fretts, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics admire the show's witty satire of sleazy doctors, as well as the performances by David Schwimmer ( Friends ) and Chris Cooper ( Lone Star ). New York 's John Leonard gripes that Breast Men simply exploits cable TV's independence to show gratuitous flesh: "In an exuberance meant to be Rabelaisian, it crosses the line from peep show into pornography."

  • The piece is full of chilling anecdotes about Serbs' "gratuitous sadism" and indifference to Kosovar suffering.

  • I said that I believe the solutions range from tough measures to get guns away from kids and criminals, to more discipline and values in our schools, to more self-restraint in the use of gratuitous violence in the entertainment media, to more parental involvement in the lives of our children--which of course means we need to give working parents more help in balancing work and family.

  • Gomberg advocated the elimination of "excessive or gratuitous or unpunished" violence in movies and television.

  • Since I neither read his article on China nor wrote him a letter, the logic that leads Krugman to a gratuitous strike at me is unclear.


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