Example sentences for: kung

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

  • People called each other by their first name; there was laughing, joking, and none of the aloofness or self-importance of the kung fu class.

  • Restaurants may continue to serve "peanut sauce" in dishes such as Kung Pao Chicken, but that sauce may no longer contain actual peanuts.

  • (Between the Leicesters and Bill Gates, the notebook was owned for a dozen or so years by Armand Hammer--who, with his unerring flair for the ludicrous, insisted it be called the Codex Hammer and claimed that he had retained a squad of elite commandos trained in kung fu and armed with Uzis to guard it round the clock.)

  • The warless !Kung San hunter-gatherers of the Kalahari Desert, once romanticized as The Harmless People , were found a few decades ago to have homicide rates between 20 and 80 times as high as industrialized nations.

  • Opening with a slapstick sequence of agent John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) doing kung fu, the film shifts to a scene in which he meets Mrs. Peel (Uma Thurman) while sitting naked in a sauna with only a newspaper to cover his private parts.


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