Example sentences for: pyrotechnics

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

  • They have to contend with so much Hollywood hokum that they're driven to overuse of overwrought literary pyrotechnics and banal humor.

  • After initial jeers, critics extend a warmer welcome to Martin Amis' detective novel, Night Train . "The novel draws its energies from the linguistic pyrotechnics of Nabokov and the human immensities of Bellow," says John Lanchester in The New Yorker , where Amis is regularly published.

  • A few carp that Finnegan's dry prose shows how far literary journalism has fallen from the pyrotechnics of its originators, such as Tom Wolfe.

  • Despite Reno's assertion that the pyrotechnics almost certainly did not cause the Waco fire, the commentariat thinks her admission hurts the government's credibility and demonstrates that Reno is honest but clueless, bordering on incompetent (Steve Roberts and Susan Page, of CNN's Late Edition ; Mark Shields and Margaret Carlson, of CNN's Capitol Gang ; and Fox News Sunday's Brit Hume).

  • To learn more about Waco pyrotechnics, click here.)


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