Example sentences for: niagara

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

  • 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.

  • The true marvel of Niagara is how nature manages to triumph over tawdry commercialism, perhaps less strident on the Canadian than on the American side of the border marked by the Falls.

  • Coming as it did not long after the invention of photography, Niagara Falls exploited that reigning convention of "the real" to communicate a sense of what lay beyond reality--the divine forces just under the surface of things, there for America to harness on its way to its Manifest Destiny.

  • The Blair Witch Project is more Niagara Falls than Heart of the Andes . The reason it's so scary is that it feels so real, even though, being a work of supernaturalism, it breaks all the rules of so-called reality.

  • With the price of the ticket, you borrow some protective clothing, but nothing is totally waterproof against Niagara.


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