Example sentences for: heathers

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

  • Although it pitches itself as an hommage to films such as Heathers , Carrie , and Clueless , critics say writer-director Darren Stein "can't decide whether he's satirizing his demon heroines' homicidal indifference or celebrating it" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The film has only two things worth looking at: the eye-popping costumes and Rose McGowan, who has the part of the bitch-goddess down pat.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • For some reason, teen flicks died out for a while after Heathers --perhaps because it took the conventions of the form as far as they could go.


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