Example sentences for: mirrors

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

  • The book's conceit--an artist awakens in a world of monkeys that mirrors modern "Swinging London"--is alternately judged a "slender idea for satire" (Kakutani) and a hilarious metaphor for "the modern urban savanna" (Gary Krist, the New York Times Book Review ). (Click here for Sarah Kerr's review in Slate and here for an excerpt from the book.)

  • I sat soaking at about 100°F, while an exuberant gentleman on my left, who was wearing his washcloth draped over his head, gave me his four words of English: New York, Broadway, Niagara Falls, Grand Canyon . The real cultural joy, however, lay in just immersing myself in this aura, evoking Dante and 8½, and watching the occupants through the steamy haze as they lathered, rinsed, and squatted on little plastic stools to shave before low-hung misted mirrors against the walls—all this before I slap-slapped back to my room to enjoy dinner on the floor.

  • She suspects it's more what Amazon's invention reveals about shopping nowadays: that it takes place inside an endless hall of mirrors.

  • Should it make us feel better about our lives, show us friendly mirrors?

  • Valid or not, the view mirrors opinion polls.


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