Example sentences for: showgirls

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

  • "Instead of ornate props and gorgeous showgirls, he shares his act lovingly with ordinary men and women in the street," writes John O'Connor in the New York Times . But many find an average performer behind the populist hype.

  • Problems are said to include a glut of heavy-handed in-jokes; a spiteful tone; and disjointed editing, done by the film's despised screenwriter, Joe Eszterhas ( Showgirls ). (The film is plugged here.)

  • In the big finale, as men and women in tiny swimsuits perform a nearly pornographic water ballet in a giant glass-walled tank, a row of topless showgirls roars onto the stage on Harley Davidsons while lasers trace American Icons--the Statue of Liberty, profiles of Washington and Lincoln, the flag-raising on Iwo Jima--onto the wings of the stage, and a 15-piece pit band plays Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." Greed, liquor, jingoism, bad taste, and utterly compelling entertainment.

  • Toulouse-Lautrec painted the showgirls of the Moulin Rouge (place Blanche) a century ago, and it still offers tourists a boisterous floor show in the old tradition.

  • I happen upon Showgirls Casino, which, unlike many other sites 1) requires no software download to play its games, and 2) posts its odds (97.


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