Example sentences for: reels

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

  • 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:

  • 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.

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

  • The mind reels reading about all these good things that are being done for us.

  • Sixty hours worth of reels, subpoenaed by the Supreme Court and carried to the courtroom in a single lockbox, yielded a "smoking gun": In June 1972, Nixon had ordered the (loyal) CIA to warn the ( not so loyal) FBI off its Watergate investigation.


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