Example sentences for: ron

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

  • Above El Floridita, Havana’s Casa del Ron has the island’s most impressive selection of rums, including hundred-dollar vintages, half a dozen national brands, and rum flavored with grenadine, peppermint, or banana.

  • The editorial, which is pegged to the Ron Fitzsimmons controversy, slams journalists for ignoring the truth about partial-birth abortion: Even a cursory investigation would have shown that the procedure is much more common than its defenders claimed.

  • This road-cum-boxing movie starring Woody Harrelson and Antonio Banderas is both trite and strange: On one hand it "knocks the Rocky tradition on its ear by giving us two boxers to root for in the same match" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), but despite this departure from convention, it manages to include "an assembly of ancient and familiar prizefight clichés" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Director Ron Shelton ( Bull Durham ) is a veteran of successful sports movies, but this one lacks the "off-the-wall larkiness" of his previous efforts (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). The film culminates in a gruesome fight between the two stars that leaves several critics bemoaning the confusion over whom to root for; others contend that the scene's emotional conflict works in its favor.

  • The example of loyalty and principle: When he had just taken over as the chairman of President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, he hired a young staff economist named Ron Hoffman (brother of Dustin Hoffman).

  • Perhaps it's because the beauties are wan, weak, overbred: They've lost their erotic vitality like some brittle-boned show dog or Ron Perelman's consort.


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