Example sentences for: racy

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

  • Commercial channels pour programs down from the heavens that match or surpass the products of the public broadcasters, who are too cowed to produce anything as homo-proud as the new Ellen , as racy as Brooklyn South , or as culturally subversive as The Larry Sanders Show . I ask you, what PBS newsman out-wings the liberal Peter Jennings?

  • If there is an English link, it's possible the link is somewhat racy.

  • Anyone who has seen Cassavetes' film can imagine Lumet's and save eight bucks" ( Los Angeles Times ). Lawrence Van Gelder is alone in support, calling it "smoother, funnier, more suspenseful and more endearing" than the first film ( New York Times ). (Compare Rowlands' almost tasteful suit in the poster for the 1980 film with Sharon Stone's racy bustier in the current version.)

  • When someone at a seminar remarked to her that her life seemed more, well, racy than those diaries revealed, she smiled mysteriously and said that after the death of all concerned, “unexpurgated” editions would be published.

  • Confidential conjures up those racy old Avon or Pocket Books pulp covers--film noir but with colors that are lurid and deep--and comments on them, too.


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