Example sentences for: inspiration

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

  • Like Italian, Spanish has estro , from the Latin oestrus `gadfly' (English estrus ) to denote artistic inspiration (and female sexual heat), but duende goes further.

  • For a large part of the world--and not only the English-speaking world--Shakespeare remains the inexhaustible source of inspiration for writers, actors, directors, composers, historians, learned societies, linguists, drama schools (where, in America, he is honored more in the breach than the observance), films, academia, literary criticism, bibliographers, translators, painters, pilgrims, philosophers, and psychologists.

  • Dylan in the 1960s was writing at such a pitch of inspiration that even his second-rate material is pretty fine.

  • If the USDA is interested in taking a hard look at the meat industry, maybe it should look for inspiration to the battle between the Food and Drug Administration and the tobacco companies.

  • Tanned and beaming after a string of recent triumphs, Jack decides to introduce his old buddy to his "muse," Sarah (Sharon Stone)--a goddess of inspiration supposedly descended from the ancient Greeks.


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