Example sentences for: peppered

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

  • The old town, which is peppered with several fine turn-of-the-century cafés on or near Praça República (including Café Astoria and A Brasileira), is a delight to wander around.

  • 's schoolboy stories were peppered with Cave!

  • Peppered with wordplay, startling visual imagery, and near misses by the two lovers, the film has only one flaw, according to critics, namely that all the fancy footwork verges on becoming too self-conscious.

  • Praise also goes to comedian Mike Nichols' film-acting debut: His "timing is flawless, his speech peppered with strange pauses through which we grasp the full weight of his irony, derision, and sheer incredulity at the peculiarity of the human phenomena that surround him" (Leslie Camhi, the Village Voice ). (Slate's Sarah Kerr argues that the movie is merely pretentious.)

  • It is peppered with literary books such as The Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird , which are probably selling well because of their inclusion on every high-school English syllabus.


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