Example sentences for: pulp

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

  • "And pummeling your opponent into a bloody pulp," he did not add.

  • If the pulp fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs gives us a glimpse into the often appalling collective unconscious of white-supremacist America, the Disney version of Tarzan will provide a similar service to future scholars pondering the equally weird mentality of feminized and Green America, circa 2000.

  • 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).

  • Liberals were nonplused and bit their nails as the conservative ideology machine turned them into pulp.

  • Ben remembers how, as a child, the pulp magazines Amazing and Astounding , with their "remote, radiant, exploding facts," used to relieve the pressure of everyday bleakness for him.


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