Example sentences for: prize

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

  • But as a reward, Nielsen families get to pick a prize from a catalogue or receive a $25 a month stipend.

  • What, then, is one to make of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine awarded to neurologist Stanley Prusiner this week?

  • At the same time that the picture was winning an international critics' prize at the Cannes Film Festival (where it was shown outside the main competition), Universal, the studio that financed it (through its recently acquired "indie" wing, October), unloaded it in a panic--largely because its new owners, the Bronfmans of Seagram, feared being associated with a movie that featured a pedophile.

  • But if it turns out that viruses do cause the diseases, then Prusiner will have won the prize for the discovery of something spectacularly wrong.

  • Shortly after he won the Pulitzer Prize for Parting the Waters (1988), which chronicled the first decade of the civil-rights movement, author Taylor Branch told a reporter that he would probably complete his second and final volume by the fall of 1990, "when the money runs out."


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