Example sentences for: raves

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

  • The former member of the Grammy-winning hip-hop trio the Fugees draws raves for her first solo album.

  • Raves for a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's account of Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell's battle against the city's decrepitude.

  • Full-throttle raves for this first feature film for French director Erick Zonca: "Frank, intimate, touching, with an emotional immediacy that is killing" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ); "brilliant" (Jack Mathews, the Daily News ). The film follows the trajectory of an intense friendship that develops between two young women who meet at a sewing factory.

  • Raves for 26-year-old director Paul Thomas Anderson's morality tale about the rise and fall of the '70s porn industry.

  • Raves for this adaptation of a play by actor/writer Wallace Shawn ( My Dinner With Andre ), which features three intellectuals holding forth on the decay of high culture ("like a surreal extended edition of The Charlie Rose Show ," writes Stephen Holden in the New York Times ). The script "flows along seamlessly ...


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