Example sentences for: mannerisms

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

  • ending (the clues are there, but one shakes them off as arty mannerisms) but not especially frightened.

  • I was actually working there, but psychiatric aides pick up so many mannerisms of the patients that it's hard to tell the difference after a while.

  • Jakes, who presides over a Dallas-based empire of books, tapes, and TV shows, wants to "heal" not just homosexuals, but all "men who are feminine in their mannerisms."

  • In the 1994 Disney film, the actor Nathan Lane supplied the voice of Timon in much the same style as his flamboyantly gay character in The Birdcage . When I saw the Broadway version of the musical, the audience roared at Timon's even more exaggerated gay mannerisms.

  • In the verbal folklore repertoire of Chicanos, jokes abound about Mexicans who become Anglos and adopt the values, mannerisms, food, clothing styles, and verbal expressions of the dominant society.


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