Example sentences for: maudlin

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

  • Klepp, Entertainment Weekly ). The New York Times ' Michiko Kakutani, after opening her review with an embarrassing parody of Hemingway's style, writes that "his angular language has turned maudlin and flabby."

  • So before I wax too maudlin, let me just say, Jodi, that you've been a great morning pen pal.

  • As Begley loses his critical distance from Schmidt, the novel grows maudlin and bleary.

  • In another McNally play-turned-film, the maudlin soap opera Love!

  • Maudlin , for instance, comes from the name of Mary Magdalene, who in painted and sculpted form is typically shown weeping.


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