Example sentences for: screenplays

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

  • The Library of America edition of his writings, edited by Sacvan Bercovitch, includes, in a spirit of thoroughness, random essays and stories that the author never finished; some screenplays; and a few letters to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edmund Wilson, and other literary figures.

  • Those of us who write screenplays for a living are always perplexed at what leaky logic vessels most movies turn out to be, given the endless development process that takes place before production begins.

  • Perhaps there was something Jewish in the style--though West, who went to the trouble of changing his name from Weinstein (which in those days was a good idea from a career perspective, even in Hollywood, where he wrote his screenplays), might not have appreciated the ethnic emphasis.

  • Best known for his absurdist treatment of World War II, Heller published six novels as well as plays, screenplays, and TV comedy.

  • Having spent the two decades since the original Star Wars (1977) concocting skeletons of screenplays that other people flesh out, and overseeing productions that other people storyboard and stage, he has come to lack what one might Michelangelistically term "the spark of life."


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