Example sentences for: oscars

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

  • The Oscars came too late for Europe's Monday morning papers, but Alexander Walker, veteran film critic of the London Evening Standard , wrote in an op-ed piece that the Academy Awards encourage Hollywood's overheated, overhyped obsession with blockbusters, which is strangling the creative spirit.

  • Honorary (a k a "lifetime achievement" or "deathbed") Oscars are typically consolation prizes, given to people whose work was overlooked in its time--such as Cary Grant, Howard Hawks, Federico Fellini, and Stanley Donen, none of whom ever won a real Oscar.

  • Top 100 lists and Oscars are simply a rather formal, inevitably somewhat pedestrian method of evaluation.

  • Participants are invited to predict the comment from Sunday's Oscars that will be most quoted in Monday's papers.

  • The Oscars are in the terminal stage, having achieved the tone of a shopping mall, a corporate charity event, frozen Cajun food, Al Gore.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast