Example sentences for: heathers

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

  • There's the black Heathers category , the most recent exercise being the reportedly awful Jawbreaker . There's the self-referential horror category as manifest in the Scream movies.

  • While gardeners today make the distinction between heath and heather plants, these words are said to derive by separate paths from some ancient word for wasteland; heath via the Anglo-Saxon, and heather via Norse hadder . In Scandinavia, the plant itself is called lyng or ling , which is a common name in Yorkshire and northern England generally for what the Scots and Irish call heather . Ling is used as a name in parts of Scotland too, but this includes the rough grasses as well as the heathers that grow on the wasterland.

  • At the end of the 1980s, teen films took a darker turn with the black comedy Heathers . The three popular girls, who all have the same name, take up Veronica (Winona Ryder), who can't resist the offer of inclusion but detests their values (they make her ignore her old friends and play cruel practical jokes on losers).

  • Critics rave: "The best and brightest high-school adventure since the groundbreaking Heathers ...

  • As black as it is, Heathers has the same theme as the Ringwald/Cusack movies.


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