Example sentences for: merchant-

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

  • Is it true they're giving the Merchant-Ivory treatment to your Golden Bowl ? Can't say I ever made it quite to the end of that one either.

  • 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.

  • (Not that I wouldn't be mighty tempted by Lemann's pining for "a Merchant-Ivory-type movie theater," mind you.)

  • 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.


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