Example sentences for: rave

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

  • Titanic --James Cameron's $200-million movie, that is--opened in continental Europe this week to rave reviews, with Le Monde describing it (under the headline "The world's most beautiful melodrama between Belfast and New York") as one of "the masterpieces of the 1990s."

  • In 1973 Doubleday wisely reissued The Young Visiters , and it got a rave review by Alan Friedman in The New York Times . He called it “a tiny novel that begs comparison with giants: Tolstoy's War and Peace , Flaubert's Sentimental Education , and Lawrence's Women in Love may be bigger, but The Young Visiters too manages to contain and display, more gracefully than the giants, an entire civilization.”

  • Meanwhile, a truly hip suburb (no, that's not oxymoronic--go visit West Lake Hills, Texas, or Berkeley or Topanga, Calif.), where there would be leaflets stapled to the telephone poles and vegetarian restaurants and rave clubs, is completely out of the question in New York, the only American city where there is still a total overlap between "downtown" and "bohemian."

  • Among four related stories: a rave review for the film and an appreciation of John Quincy Adams, a major Amistad character and "one of the only genuine intellectuals ever to occupy the White House."

  • There are art lovers who rave about paintings locked in the basement of the Hermitage.


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