Example sentences for: roses

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

  • When they wouldn't pony up huge bucks for TV and film producer James L. Brooks after he brought them The Simpsons , Big , and The War of the Roses , he took still more money at Sony.

  • In spring, the park gardens put on a magnificent show of daffodils, tulips, magnolias, and roses, and diners in the park restaurant get a great view of the falls’ nighttime illuminations.

  • Actually, Hopkins gives this humanistic magnate considerable weight, so that whether or not Death takes him before he can stop to smell the roses and make amends to his neglected children becomes a matter of some suspense.

  • Back in the roses for the first time in years, he's soon pumping iron, smoking pot, and telling off his frigid wife and faceless bosses, convinced that whatever he has lost he's getting back, baby.

  • In News Quiz responses and in the wider culture (if there is one), food is used as a metaphor for ideology (bread and roses; let them eat cake) and for character: Their attitudes toward eating reveal something, well, distasteful about President Clinton and Calista Flockhart.


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