Example sentences for: quasi-

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

  • It doesn't do much good to come along and say, well, the encrustation of cut-out porno photos has a decorative quality that recalls Gustave Moreau's overloaded, quasi- (queasy) mystical images of the (last) fin de siècle ? Better would be to compare and contrast it with other art brut and with other blasphemous imagery.

  • A quasi-Borgesian conceit, but Saramago uses it to ask how people love when disaster upsets the social norms.

  • Seems as reasonable a resume as being a quasi-Texas rich kid with $56 million to burn on being Big Oil's Puppet President, and indeed, Jesse's utterances on drug and prostitution decriminalization, on the need for unions, and the oft-quoted snap about organized religion being a crutch for the weak-minded and an excuse to stick their noses in other people's business, are the kind of discussion I haven't heard from a politician since Abbie Hoffman took it on the lam.

  • This suppression has helped legitimize the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) , a quasi-Marxist guerrilla group that champions Kurdish autonomy.

  • Dale Spender's quasi-Worfian views on “man made language,” published in 1980, are counterbalanced by the perceptive 1981 review of Spender's book by Maria Black and Rosalind Coward.


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