Example sentences for: hokey

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

  • Although the chain preserved his hokey South Pacific décor and still touts the chain's goods in its eccentric "fearless flyers"--illustrated with 19 th century pen and ink clip art, no less--it treats the identities of its new owners as some sort of state secret.

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • 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.)

  • Everyone else will find the film hokey and overburdened with "pseudoscientific terminology" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). (Read Edelstein's review in Slate , and visit the official Star Trek site, where you can buy Star Trek mugs, posters, and Christmas cards.)


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