Example sentences for: s--the

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

  • is just the reverse of Hendrickson's--the O.K.

  • It also invokes a remarkably complex set of references, and so might stand as an emblem of the '60s--the decade and the book--for a number of reasons.

  • For people of my generation the key years were the '30s and '40s--the era of Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Fred and Ginger, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter.

  • Building on the huge success of his series paintings of the 1890s--the cathedrals and haystacks (now awkwardly renamed "grainstacks") and rows of poplars--Monet could afford to paint for himself alone.

  • Only in this case--unlike in Moynihan's--the redefinition has served to increase, rather than decrease, the required level of government intervention, shifting to the national treasury responsibility for hardships that individuals and localities once stoically assumed.


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