Example sentences for: showstoppers

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

  • Military officers reviewed the capture plan and, according to "Mike," "found no showstoppers."

  • What wows 'em are Broadway-style showstoppers, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, whose work has become less tuneful and more pretentious since the heady days of Godspell and Pippin . Schwartz's rhymes are all of the moon-June variety, and the big inspirational number, in which hope is conceded sometimes to "fly away, like silver birds," asks: "Who knows what miracles you can achieve/ When you believe?"

  • The showstoppers at Longmen, carved in the years 680 and 675, respectively, are the Cave of Ten Thousand Buddhas (Wanfodong), with 15,000 little Buddhas carved into its niches, and the Honoring Ancestors Cave (Juxianshiku), constructed at the behest of Tang Empress Wu.


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