Example sentences for: hokey

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

  • Critics find Warren Beatty's chutzpah and charm irresistible and praise his political comedy despite its hokey plot.

  • I moved out of the way, then she--I know you see this coming--scooped up a handful of Hokey Pokey and popped it in her mouth.

  • Newsweek 's Jeff Giles calls it a "hokey tragic romance" and Entertainment Weekly 's Vanessa Friedman says it "reads like a high school essay--'write the story as if you were Charlotte Brontë.

  • The basic concept is hokey, if mildly original: A band of old-west nasties stumbles into a strange town populated by the souls of dead outlaws doing penance in the hopes of earning a seat on the great stagecoach to heaven.

  • Most critics find little resemblance between German director Wolfgang Petersen's "hokey" action flick and his near-classic Das Boot . Harrison Ford's turn as a U.S. president who goes mano a mano with Russian hijackers aboard his official plane is deemed a "14-year-old boy's fantasy of being president" (David Denby, New York ). Reflecting a general weariness with the summer's Hollywood fare, The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty writes, "Let's hope they don't get any sillier than this."


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