Example sentences for: mannered

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

  • As played by Jeremy Brett, Holmes was so eccentric, so mannered, that all attention was drawn to him, rather than to the story--and after you had seen him several times, he elicited giggles rather than puzzlement.

  • well, being mannered.

  • (Lish is an easy target, since he's enormously controversial for a number of reasons: his mannered writing style, for one, and his interventionist editorial style, for another, which made other authors' careers and also earned their enmity.)

  • ' " Most everyone agrees, calling the film formulaic and the gore overly mannered.

  • There are stellar turns by Davies, Ribisi, Tom Sizemore as a plodding but good-hearted sergeant, and Edward Burns, whose acting is less mannered when removed from his own movies.


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