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.

  • An interesting mix of genres (vampire and Western) winds up as a hokey mess: "[T]his gummy mix of fake-Catholic mumbo jumbo and teeth-in-neck horror goes limp" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). "[T]he unintended campiness of Vampires makes Night of the Living Dead look like an episode of Nightline " (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). But Gene Siskel praises the film, calling it "surprisingly entertaining" ( Chicago Tribune ). (Watch the trailer.)

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Let Prudie hasten to add that she, too, finds the wait staff singing the birthday song rather hokey and believes that the only people who dislike it more than you and I are the "honorees."


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