Example sentences for: niven

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

  • Watching this sequence, I thought of the late David Niven, who, during the 1974 Academy Awards ceremony, saw a streaker charge across the stage and brought the house down with an ad-lib about the fellow "showing off his shortcomings."

  • photoreceptors (Niven et al.

  • ) In less commom use, but a wonderful word all the same , is corpsicle , Larry Niven's term for a person frozen at death for future reuscitation and repair (“The Defenseless Dead,” 1973).

  • Niven wouldn't get a laugh here: Myers has rendered himself invulnerable to the incinerating one-liners of prudes and sniggerers.

  • 2003; Niven et al.


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