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.

  • When offered by feminists, the answers frequently appear in a style that is marked by word play dependent on written forms; a style that is unconventional, mannered, at its best witty; a style that suggests alternatives to those styles that feminists would designate male-influenced.

  • With your expertise in etiquette, I propose that we put out a special millennial edition of Breakfast Table--Best-Mannered Celebrity of All Time.

  • The National League of Junior Cotillions' "Ten Best-Mannered People of 1998."

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


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