Example sentences for: maudlin

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

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

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

  • 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."

  • "I like to put them on and think, 'You know, Momma looked through these,' " she tells the Globe . Apparently Bakker shares this maudlin optical fascination with Judge Judy Sheindlin, who (according to the Enquirer ) almost "burst into tears" and stopped production of her TV show when she misplaced her reading glasses, which once belonged to her beloved late father.

  • Alas, read as a novel, Binyamin Wilkomirski's Fragments is maudlin and obvious.


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