Example sentences for: screenplays

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

  • 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.

  • Looking back on '97, critics lament the ubiquity of disaster movies, mindless screenplays, and actor Robin Williams, who, Time magazine says, is waging "a campaign to suck our affection for him to its marrow."

  • At least he's not Mikey, a paunchy 54-year-old who writes but can't sell screenplays and who always flees blind dates, because the women he gets fixed up with are "mutts."

  • 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.

  • 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.


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