Example sentences for: jaded

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

  • Years ago, in the days before I became a journalist, I played trombone with a group called the Uptown Horns, backing up blues and rock bands, and I savor the memory of how our jaded little group used to mock the rock world's cult of the charismatic.

  • Spader is a bit too sincere and boyish to play the jaded libertine Ballard, but he's a fine actor and unquestionably game.

  • Hatred of the government gave way to a jaded contempt.

  • But the essay's example was Tolstoy's use of Natasha Rostova in War and Peace . At Tolstoy's balls, teas, and operas, even jaded readers get to see everything anew--because we see it through Natasha's gushing teeny-bopper heart.

  • Flick's name is clearly an hommage to Sammy Glick, the Hollywood hustler of Budd Schulberg's classic portrait of '30s ambition, What Makes Sammy Run ? Glick was viewed through the eyes of Al Manheim, a jaded lefty alcoholic who regarded this new species of capitalist human with contempt but also with awe: Sammy was a force of nature.


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