Example sentences for: rendition

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

  • Indeed, Shakespeare would have been delighted by a Harrison rendition of many of the more than a thousand naughty passages that have so diligently been compiled by Eric Partridge in his Shakespeare's Bawdry . Partridge's are all instances of intentionally naughty entries.

  • In one interval checked, W reveals Montague (Romeo's family name), Montmorency (a kind of cherry), Montrachet (wine), monuron (a herbicide), moon-eye (a fish), moon-eyed (open-eyed), and moonflower , as headwords not in L ; the same interval in L reveals montbretia (a plant), Montessorian (teaching method), month of Sundays , Montilla , -mony (suffix) Moog synthesizer , moon daisy (the oxeye), moon-faced , moonglow , and moonrat , which do not appear in W . Leaving aside the plants and animals, which are differently distributed for American and British users, the only significant omission from L is Montrachet , while the important words omitted from W are Montessorian , month of Sundays , -mony , Moog synthesizer , moon-faced , and moonglow . The last word is not in the RHD II , but it should be, for the L citation is from Henry Miller and the word also appears in the lyrics written for the popularized rendition of Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony.

  • The basic ideas of Genesis receive their best secular rendition in the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant, who takes the idea of creation in the image of God and bequeaths to us the idea of universal humanity.

  • While Celebration promotes itself as a model for American innocence, hearkening back to the way we were pre-1940, before we were so corrupted by the highway and the suburb, Fernandina Beach was literally (and literarily) the model for another and more cautionary rendition of that same '40s ur-village.

  • Postal Service that a town would break into a spontaneous rendition of "America the Beautiful" when a letter carrier departs on his rounds, or that a man facing a firing squad would yell out--in the unlikeliest line of dialogue of 1997--"Ride, postman, ride!"


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