Example sentences for: one--and

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

  • Critics ignore the absurd premise--a cop (John Travolta) and a villain (Nicolas Cage) each undergoing plastic surgery to look like the other one--and take unabashed delight in the movie's "grandly operatic pulp" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Reviews credit Woo with giving violence "balletic grace" (Todd McCarthy, Variety ) as well as "moral gravity" (Richard Corliss, Time ). Cage and Travolta are deemed "two of the most daring, physically intuitive, soulful performers on screen" (Ansen).

  • There remain many unanswered questions about the Staples deal, of which the "journalism ethics" question is only one--and perhaps the least interesting.

  • And there is something to startle you in Leigh's crooked, bittersweet little comedy Career Girls . It's called Katrin Cartlidge, and every director should have one--and build an altar to it.

  • Not an airtight argument (all anti-discrimination laws pick and choose among protected classes), but a cleverly textualist one--and one that seems to have helped convince a majority of the court to strike down the amendment, despite a lack of helpful precedent.

  • "They rented two rooms, but occupied just one--and hardly ever left it," smirks the Enquirer . While Keeping Tabs was particularly fond of the Enquirer headline announcing that Cameron Diaz "Likes Loud Sex & Hates Matt Dillon," she was duly impressed that the Globe 's prurient interests managed to extend even to the great beyond.


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