Example sentences for: performances

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

  • I remember these moments, as I'm sure you do, and I also recall many other moving performances when our athletes reached deep within themselves to overcome what appeared to be insurmountable odds.

  • But a weird, masochistic streak has emerged in her performances.

  • When you reach the top station, walk to the small chapels of Ayios Isidoros and Ayios Georgios — center of the Easter celebrations for the city — a modern amphitheater for summer performances, and wonderful views across Athens where major attractions are pointed out on marble panoramas.

  • "The Boogie Nights of the fake-boob industry" (Bruce Fretts, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics admire the show's witty satire of sleazy doctors, as well as the performances by David Schwimmer ( Friends ) and Chris Cooper ( Lone Star ). New York 's John Leonard gripes that Breast Men simply exploits cable TV's independence to show gratuitous flesh: "In an exuberance meant to be Rabelaisian, it crosses the line from peep show into pornography."

  • The supreme tragedies leave us not devastated but exhilarated, and the sublime actors, the moment their performances begin, stop acting.


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