Example sentences for: melvin

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

  • The American Thesaurus of Slang, by Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van Den Bark (1943) defines gedunk as `to eat a sundae' [p.

  • The secretary of defense at the time, Melvin Laird, is quoted as having "no specific recollection" of sarin being used, but "I do not dispute what Adm.

  • Little Melvin is a flaming racist outrage, and I can't make any sense out of Trey (Justin Chambers), a glamorous, rich WASP who's fond of crashing cars and who takes such a liking to Van that he appears to be foisting his girlfriend--the blonde goddess--on the Jew.

  • Four screenwriters, among them the great Bo Goldman ( Melvin and Howard , 1980; Shoot the Moon , 1982), labored on this moldy script, which features characters who ask questions that begin "Am I to understand that ...

  • To be sure, four names—Heather Gay, Brian O'Kill, Katherine Seed, and Janet Whitcut—appear on the Acknowledgements page, but so do names of a lot of other people (like Frank Kermode, Melvin Bragg, Clement Freud, Germaine Greer, Clive Jenkins, and Janet Street-Porter) whose direct connection with the book at hand would seem to be much more remote.


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