Example sentences for: recycled

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

  • Since he left almost no paper trail--few letters, no drawings, no artistic manifestoes--the same stories gleaned from friends and dealers have been recycled over the years.

  • has a visual energy all its own--a blizzard of boulders, the village blanketed with mauve ash, a bridge cracking apart and dumping its cargo of cars into a river" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). "The stupid thing gets the job done" (David Denby, New York ). Critics interpret the sudden outcropping of natural-disaster movies as nostalgia for the '70s and films such as The Poseidon Adventure and Jaws , "some of whose plot elements have been recycled here," says Denby.

  • , Japanese cinema will probably continue to be dominated by recycled ultraviolent gangster tales until it undergoes long-overdue industry reforms.

  • My friend W. G. (Lord) Runciman, the businessman and sociologist at Trinity (quite a combination), calls it "recycled platitudes."

  • "A lazy, ham actor shows up to explain to poor Ed the secrets of Lee Strasberg's "Method"--how to be "private in public"--just like on Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio !" It turned out that this wasn't Dennis Hopper, however, but Dennis Hopper in the role of Ed's long-lost father--and few things can dispel the illusion of watching real people than a hack actor feigning naturalness via mannerisms recycled from James Dean and Montgomery Clift.


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