Example sentences for: sequel

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

  • The critics are nearly unanimous: The sequel falls short but is "splendid entertainment" nonetheless (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). The presence of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" only underlines how much better the original was.

  • Well, Gene Hackman once described how the Poseidon Adventure producers wanted him back for a sequel, and when he pointed out that his character had been incinerated (in a pit of molten lead, coincidentally), they said he could greet the previous film's survivors as they exited the upside-down vessel with the line: "Did my brother make it?"

  • Would this sequel to the 1980 comedy based on Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi's Saturday Night Live characters have made a "better concert film," as Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times says?

  • Typical of this type of drama is the 1976 film The Enforcer , a sequel to Dirty Harry . Eastwood pursues a gang of hippie terrorists who murder assorted innocents and kill his female partner in a shootout.

  • The sequel to the 1994 smash hit--this time set on a runaway luxury liner instead of a runaway bus--is ridiculed as an inferior knockoff.


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