Example sentences for: shawn

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

  • Ross assures us that Mr. Shawn was reading Tina Brown's New Yorker "with new interest" in the weeks prior to his death.

  • In the Los Angeles Times , ex- New Yorker writer Jeremy Bernstein accuses Mehta of glossing over Shawn's inadequacies as a manager and his fatal failure to groom a successor.

  • Remembering Mr. Shawn's "New Yorker": The Invisible Art of Editing

  • Contrary to Seth Stevenson's "Signs and Wonders," credit for the first High-Five should go to Mel Brooks, director of the 1968 classic The Producers . Actually, Brooks did not execute the maneuver, but directed Dick Shawn, as a flowery actor in the title role of the fictitious Broadway play Springtime for Hitler , to complete the first High-Five with another actor who was giving a Nazi salute, to which Shawn responded, "Heil, Baby!"

  • Ross wins some applause for her dishy revelations, such as Shawn's fondness for racetracks and sex, but also criticism for her ill-wrought prose and overheated tone.


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