Example sentences for: heil

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

  • The Daily Telegraph reported Friday that a German truck driver working for a British haulage firm close to London's Heathrow Airport has been awarded about $18,000 in compensation after his bosses and co-workers called him "Hitler" over the public address system, shouted "Sieg Heil" when he walked past, and referred to his truck as "the Panzer division."

  • Touchy plot lines have been softened with creative dubbing, and the camp staff's stiff-armed salutes are never accompanied by "Heil Hitler."

  • In class, her legs cross primly under her desk while her hand snaps up like a Sieg Heil . When she stamps out "Tracy Flick for President" buttons on her hand-operated button press, she sets her big jaw and grits her teeth and bears down as if eliminating her rivals with every squeeze.

  • Contrary to Seth Stevenson's "Signs and Wonders," credit for the first High-Five should go to Mel Brooks, director of the 1968 classic The Producers . Actually, Brooks did not execute the maneuver, but directed Dick Shawn, as a flowery actor in the title role of the fictitious Broadway play Springtime for Hitler , to complete the first High-Five with another actor who was giving a Nazi salute, to which Shawn responded, "Heil, Baby!"

  • "Heil Harvard" describes how Austria's far-right leader, the repellent Jorg Haider, is polishing his reputation by attending Harvard conferences and schmoozing American politicians.


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