Example sentences for: reel

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

  • When Lincoln posed for Brady in 1860, during a campaign swing through New York City, Brady's staff retouched the negative to reel in Lincoln's roving left eye, and erased the lines on his face.

  • Of what use is the poet's poem, Of what use is the bowman's dart, Unless another's senses reel When it sticks quivering in the heart?

  • He would cut into the belly of one, at the kitchen sink, Mother squabbling in the background, and he'd be up to his elbows in silver, blood shining from the knife, the room smelling of sweat, boots, coffee, smoke, and though I'd been at home, in bed the whole time, I could see the Puyallup River, the herons rising, cattails and redwing blackbirds with their bottlebrush shapes and streaks of color, from shore to shore a thick fog, but rolling up and off like smoke, a reel singing as the steelhead ran with the line, the hurry, the thrash and splashing, feet stumbling along the shore to keep up, to keep the line from getting cut.

  • If that's censorship, so be it" (Bill Reel, Newsday ). (Click here to read Jon Robin Baitz's take on the controversy in Slate 's "Diary."

  • Lewinsky, appearing far more sophisticated than in the previous head shot or the CNN reel.


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