Example sentences for: lenny

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

  • we can't forget Lenny Bruce, can we?

  • Lenny Bruce built a routine around the idea that repeating the word "nigger" over and over and over very, very fast could strip it of its cruel power, reducing it to an impotent sound.

  • Other reviews compare him to Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor.

  • Sweet, tremulous Joy Jordan (Jane Adams), the youngest, has turned 30 and still lives in the house of her parents, Mona (Louise Lasser) and Lenny (Ben Gazzara), who have a condo in Florida and are in the throes of a vexingly tentative separation.

  • DeLillo's epic of Cold War America--which juxtaposes Russia's atomic bomb with Bobby Thompson's Shot Heard Round the World, a Lenny Bruce concert, and a lost Sergei Eisenstein film--is pronounced a "masterwork" (Tom LeClair, the Atlantic Monthly ). DeLillo wins praise for his witty prose and inventive historical fiction, which includes such postwar celebrities as Frank Sinatra and J. Edgar Hoover.


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