Example sentences for: maltese

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

  • There are traditional cowboys and tough guys on the list, but the former (as in Stagecoach , 1939, and The Searchers , 1956) is limited mostly to John Wayne, and the latter (as in The Maltese Falcon , 1941) to Humphrey Bogart; and you get the sense these films were chosen more out of nostalgia for their stars than for their dramatic power.

  • Betty Loren-Maltese, town president of Cicero, Ill., wants to fight even harder; she proposes exiling gang members--banishing them from Cicero--and coming down hard if they ever return, even to visit their families.

  • Q: Does Betty Loren-Maltese think her law should apply to convicted felons like her late husband and to those in organized crime?

  • Yet Maltese, a bonafide Semitic language is written not in Arabic but in Latin letters.

  • This dress is what Alfred Hitchcock used to call the McGuffin--the all-important object whose pursuit frames a narrative (examples: the Maltese falcon, Charles Foster Kane's sled, and the uranium-packed wine bottles in Hitchcock's own Notorious ). The Love Dress's existence was first speculated upon in the Drudge Report (where it was black) and then on ABC (where it was navy blue).


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