Example sentences for: magnum

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

  • The author concludes, "It is as a rule absurd, and utterly unrealistic, to see ideological motives, let alone ideological malevolence" in action pictures; he is conveniently omitting any reference here to Eastwood's pal John Milius, the gleeful liberal-basher who scripted many of the banner lines in Dirty Harry and Magnum Force (1973).

  • Director Joe Dante is chided for wasting realistic special effects and the voices of Tommy Lee Jones and Ernest Borgnine and for failing to reprise the biting humor of his magnum opus, Gremlins . Critics dwell on the irony of the late Phil Hartman's character getting caught in crossfire.

  • And he was complaining about the insinuating way that little English guy used to call him 'Magnum' on Magnum P.I.

  • Schickel is alternately sycophantic (toward Eastwood) and pugilistic (toward any critic who has ever had unkind words for the actor--particularly Pauline Kael, who did seem to have a mission to make the tall man's Magnum shrivel).

  • The City Hall complex was architect Tange Kenzo’s magnum opus, arguably the last great work of his career.


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