Example sentences for: sellout

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

  • Not even Robert Altman, who parodied this sort of climax in The Player , was cynical enough to let his sellout filmmaker play the intravenous card.

  • Some of Coppola's "personal" movies are magnificent ( The Conversation and, arguably, Apocalypse Now ). But others are dreadful ( One From the Heart , Tucker ). Some of Coppola's sellout movies are dreadful ( The Cotton Club , Jack ...)

  • The Godfather , in fact, was the quintessential sellout: Paramount picked Coppola to direct the movie because he would work for cheap.

  • For example a score of 23 to 28 indicated a Chicano Barriologist was “muy de aquellas” (very Chicano); 18 to 22 indicated High Potential, “o ya casi” (almost a Chicano); 13 to 17 was half Mexican, half American, or “keep trying, you”; 8 to 12 was a “vendido” (sellout or culturally deprived); and 0 to 7 was a “pendejo” (dummy, jerk).

  • * * This prompted widespread disgust among journalists, who viewed ABC's move as a sellout.


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