Example sentences for: junkies

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

  • Some critics praise the film for featuring a hard-working family instead of Hollywood's usual black "pimps and junkies" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Others say it just replaces a negative stereotype with a schmaltzy one: "[I]t pushes emotional buttons with all the subtlety of a poke in the baby-back ribs" (Richard Corliss, Time ). (Photos and the like are available here.)

  • The WP 's Al Kamen reports that once again "civilian" political junkies who sent him their election predictions did a far better job than all those "experts" on TV.

  • All sports junkies bore their friends with stories of their astounding predictions.

  • His book "will only be read by C-SPAN junkies."

  • Gridiron junkies in particular can kick back in the Barcalounger at 11:00 New Years morn (Cotton Bowl, Fox; Outback Bowl, ESPN) and vanish into a festival of testosterone until the final gun sounds on the Sugar Bowl (ABC, 8:30) some time around midnight.


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