Example sentences for: remake

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

  • The world didn't need a remake of The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), an enjoyable piece of romantic fluff in which worldly millionaire thief Steve McQueen matched wits with brittle insurance investigator Faye Dunaway.

  • So you can imagine my surprise that the recent remake, Kids , was not based on the song.

  • Critics call this remake of Death Takes a Holiday a "somnolent, emotion-free weepie" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Faults: It's way too long (almost three hours), and Brad Pitt's performance as Death is crushingly zombielike.

  • Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin star in a remake of Neil Simon's 1970 film that's "so feeble and unfocussed as to make the Farrelly brothers of There's Something About Mary appear to have suckled at the bosom of Aristophanes" (Lawrence Van Gelder, the New York Times ). All critics agree; few put it so well.

  • But the Sydney Morning Herald said that the country's re-elected conservative Prime Minister John Howard "must virtually remake himself" and "be entirely more sophisticated in grappling with the changing nature of Australia."


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