Example sentences for: reels

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

  • An article says other nations might turn to Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin for stability while Clinton reels.

  • What Americans do recall about Cagney they're likely to have picked up from imitators (including, of all people, Sammy Davis Jr.), who loved to mimic his nasal, rapid-fire delivery, and to re-enact that moment at the end of his films when he gets plugged with what seems like 300 bullets and reels theatrically for 12 minutes before dropping dead.

  • According to the New York Times , Toy Story animators screened reels of his work when their imaginations flagged, and writers for Star Trek named an alien species after one of his features.

  • In three volumes-- Ballads , Social Music , and Songs --he gathered blues, gospel hymns, murder narratives, reels and jigs, Cajun tunes, sermons, and ancient Child ballads transmuted from their British origins by centuries in the mountains and valleys of America.

  • Standardized tests are dispatched wittily in a scene in 'Tis in which an "Academic Chairman" reels off a list of what McCourt, as a neophyte teacher, must do with a class full of angry, ignorant, rebellious teen-agers:


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