Example sentences for: is--

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

  • And a fine gift it is--Chatterbox frequently gives this very volume to women with whom it is not having sexual relations.

  • Speed knows what it is--"The Volkswagen GTI!"

  • The etymological game being what it is--( requiescat in ) pace John Ciardi--I fully expect someone to come up with an origin for cute as a button that identifies it with the six adorable daughters of some 17th-century Londoner named Button or, just to make it more complicated, a corruption of the expression *acute as a bouton in which bouton means `stud with a sharp point'--in other words, originally equivalent to sharp as a tack .

  • If he wants to expose criminal behavior by the president and punish it no matter what--if, in short, he is the vindictive avenger Clinton's defenders say he is--Starr will sacrifice no advantage.

  • He's fun to watch, but he's not the performer Carville is--Carville, who comes through in the documentary The War Room as a titanic operator, a barker whose appetite for politics is mesmerizing to the point of messianism.


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