Example sentences for: groovy

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

  • Things have pretty much come full circle if you now think that what makes Generation-Sensation so groovy is that they "graft" literary themes onto modern art.

  • Here's a Buick ad, cited by Thomas Dalzell, a lexicographer of slang, in his terrific book Flappers 2 Rappers : "Stand off and beam at Buick's years-ahead style--there's something not only favored by the old folks, but termed by the younger idea, definitely groovy !" The ad appeared in Newsweek in 1946.

  • The Washington Post , Los Angeles Times and New York Times lead with divisions in the Senate looming beyond Friday's groovy vibe, mostly surrounding the issue of witnesses.

  • People magazine had just referred to Winona Ryder in passing as "the groovy gamine."

  • In the wild--that is, in the more freewheeling and inflected realm of spoken language-- groovy thrives in a largely ironic state; the use of the word requires a context of wavelength synchrony between speaker and listener.


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