Example sentences for: reprise

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

  • Director Joe Dante is chided for wasting realistic special effects and the voices of Tommy Lee Jones and Ernest Borgnine and for failing to reprise the biting humor of his magnum opus, Gremlins . Critics dwell on the irony of the late Phil Hartman's character getting caught in crossfire.

  • Yet, in A Matter of Interpretation , his reprise of the traditional jeremiad against judicial usurpation concludes with a twist.

  • For its part, The King of Comedy , a creepy reprise of Taxi Driver --played, this time, for laughs--is a movie made before its time, back when celebrity-stalking was a piquant metaphor for our cultural ills, rather than the focus of our cultural life.

  • Arafat is reluctant to reprise that police action, observers say, because he believes that the threat of terrorism is the only way to force Netanyahu to restart the peace talks.

  • Reporters looking to reprise the old conflict had a hard time finding anyone who still bears him a grudge.


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