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Example sentences for: rourke
How can you use “rourke” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
O'Rourke has an anti-Clinton screed on the NYT op-ed page today.
After sitting in the emergency room of Cedars-Sinai for two hours, Rourke began to feel better.
He gives high marks to Sharon Stone's "light-handed surgical touch" but pans Mickey Rourke, whose "skin is pulled back so tightly he looks like a lizard."
The press in the US is virtually enjoined these days from identifying people by race in the text of articles, a practice that has extended to the banning of songs and spirituals like Ol' Black Joe . But that is got round either by showing a photograph or by making certain that we learn the subject's name is Wong Fu, Takashimaya, Goldberg, O'Rourke, Nielsen, Gandhi, Rashid, Zbigniew, Molotov , etc., though one is less likely these days to be able to identify race, color, or ethnicity from certain names (like Livingston, for example).
And on it goes, a list of nose-wrinkling quibbles you can still hear today: We're mercenary, self-centered, impolite, and worst of all, too bourgeois to understand the geniuses of our age, such as Jerry Lewis and Mickey Rourke.