Example sentences for: melvin

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

  • 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.

  • For example, the character of Little Melvin the pimp in Barry Levinson's Liberty Heights made me uncomfortable, and yet doubtless such characters existed at that time, and Orlando Jones does a lively job with the performance, and if I am watching a movie about a (Jewish) man who runs a numbers game, is it not possible one of his customers might be like this man?

  • 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.

  • 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.

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


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