Example sentences for: raves

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

  • The young Russian gold medalist Ilya Kulik got raves for his dazzling skating and nothing but scorn for the yellow-and-black giraffe-print shirt he wore, with more scorn for the gauzy wings on the abstractly designed torso of his other costume.

  • full of bravura moments and high-wire performances" ( Newsweek ), and Roger Ebert raves that "it contains some of [Scorsese's] most brilliant sequences" ( Chicago Sun-Times ). Overall, though, the reviews complain that the film feels too familiar and short on plot.

  • Raves mount for Don DeLillo's Underworld.

  • The book, raves Tom de Haven in the New York Times Book Review , has "pitch-perfect dialogue, persuasive characterization and a rich progression of scenes ...

  • After weeks of hype and raves, Mike Nichols' political satire opens to mediocre reviews.


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