Example sentences for: merchant-

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

  • Only New York has no suburb with an essentially yuppie character--by which I mean dotted with little strip centers containing, perhaps, one or two casually chic restaurants, a Starbucks, a Borders, an upscale food market, an art gallery, a Merchant-Ivory-type movie theater, and a mildly stylish home-furnishings store.

  • Critics laud Merchant-Ivory's exit from the 19 th century in this adaptation of a semiautobiographical novel by Kaylie Jones (daughter of novelist James Jones).

  • Wilde's combination of stylishness and tragedy lends itself perfectly to overcostumed, overwrought Merchant-Ivory-style drama.

  • I embrace my middle-aged, middlebrow destiny, regularly dozing off around 9:30 in front of a Merchant-Ivory movie on public television.

  • You can see it gathering steam in Surviving Picasso , the 1996 Merchant-Ivory film that views Picasso pathetically, through the unsympathetic eyes of his lover Françoise Gilot.


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