Example sentences for: kamikaze

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

  • Carrey, playing a sleazy lawyer forced to tell the truth for a day, "removes the rubber nose and plays a realistic human being" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). But the film still relies on Carrey's "kamikaze elan" to overcome its meager premise ("[a] one joke movie"--Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). And The New Yorker 's Anthony Lane says director Tom Shadyac ( The Nutty Professor ) blunders in choosing, midfilm, "to calm down the proceedings, [so that] our poor hero is reduced to saying therapeutic things like ...

  • It was from Kagoshima that the last desperate sorties of World War II were begun to resist an imminent US invasion, including the kamikaze raids on American warships.

  • In an editorial titled "Kamikaze Tactics," the Times of India described the incident as "a regrettable necessity" and said that "[f]or the sake of peace and security in the region and beyond, India has to sensitise the international community to the new threat posed by Pakistan."

  • Chiran’s Kamikaze Museum, which includes a monumental statue of a pilot, exhibits the young men’s uniforms, helmets, and final letters to their families explaining that they were continuing the samurai spirit of defending the country’s traditional values.

  • In my own semantic system (and English is my native language), Kamikaze does not usually mean `a pilot' because I have to say `Kamikaze pilot' to refer to someone who is involved in a kamikaze mission.


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