Example sentences for: sci-fi

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

  • The misgivings of scientists are particularly shrill in Frameshift , by Canadian sci-fi writer Robert J. Sawyer.

  • The Astronaut's Wife is one of the classiest terrible sci-fi movies you're likely to see.

  • It shouldn't make a lick of sense, let alone feel all of a piece, but The Matrix is actually one of the more lyrical sci-fi action thrillers ever made, in which space and time become love slaves to the directors' witty visual fancies.

  • The undersea sci-fi adventure is dismissed as "another variation of the same old supernatural junk" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). Critics deplore the film's pretentious pronouncements about man's place in the universe and say Levinson is "out of his element" trying to build suspense (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). Dissenting, the New York Times ' Janet Maslin calls the stars' performances irresistible and salutes Levinson for tackling a new genre.

  • Last week I suggested that Clinton watch three movies for inspiration about how to escape the dress: Primary Colors , Presumed Innocent , and There's Something About Mary . Reader Jason Furman reminds me of a fourth film: Gattaca , a sci-fi thriller in which the hero hides small packets of blood in his fingertip and urine in his bladder (don't ask how) in order to fool DNA tests.


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