Example sentences for: maggie

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

  • Gere is Ike Graham, a New York-based USA Today columnist, who hears about Maggie in a bar and, without even a call to confirm his facts ( check ), devotes his next piece to an un-PC screed on the inconstancy of all women ( check ) with this "runaway bride" as Exhibit A. The column makes him instantly ( check ) unpopular with all those Manhattan USA Today readers ( check ) who recognize him on the street ( check ), not to mention the hordes of small-town USA Today readers who wait for the paper's delivery truck as if it were the Good Humor man ( check ). After the subject of the column responds with a letter composed on a manual typewriter ( check ) disputing its facts, his editor and ex-wife ( check ) (Rita Wilson) promptly ( check ) fires him ( check ).

  • They're either saintly, maternal figures (Kate Keller in All My Sons , Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman , Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible ) or destructive temptresses (Abigail Williams in The Crucible , Catherine in A View From the Bridge , Maggie in After the Fall ). The lack of interest in women's minds is another thing that dates Miller and makes even his more recent plays seem like period pieces.

  • Meanwhile, a previously apolitical 33-year-old housewife named Maggie Ray began convening local activists, black and white, pro- and anti-busing, to work out an alternative solution--and also endeared herself to the judge at a backyard barbecue.

  • Maggie is a great role for Roberts, who can be alternately warm and skittish, promiscuous and clammy.

  • Heche, who played Demi Moore's doomed doctor girlfriend in The Juror , brings a wounded poetry to Maggie's bedragglement.


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