Example sentences for: ode

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

  • After winning Best Director at Cannes and making a splash at the New York Film Festival, Pedro Almodóvar's ode to women opens to gushing praise: "the most moving film of his career" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). A single mother whose teen-age son is suddenly killed makes a pilgrimage to track down the boy's father and in the process encounters women from all walks of life--transsexuals, pregnant nuns, divas, and more.

  • The four third-grade protagonists--Stan, Kyle the Jew, fat Cartman, and mush-mouthed sacrificial lamb Kenny--sing a Rodgers and Hammerstein-style ode to their "peaceful, redneck, podunk" wintry mountain town (where denizens step over the homeless on their way to church services), and then bluff their way into an R-rated Canadian cartoon called Asses of Fire . That picture stars a crudely drawn, Beavis and Butt-head-type duo called Terrance and Phillip, who entertain each other by spewing four-letter words and passing gas in each other's faces.

  • The film opens with DeVito delivering a sardonic ode to L.A. that captures both the gleaming surface and the underlying rancidity.

  • Then, finalizing his ode to non sequiturs, Itell analogizes Tyson's alleged "disease" to a "fatal disease" and even recommends that Tyson take psychoactive drugs and undergo a "medical clearance" on his behavior.

  • Free not to have to puff some prince's wedding, Free to say up yours to Tony Blair, To write an ode on Charles I's beheading And regret the restoration of his heir.


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