Example sentences for: slew

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

  • The advent of electronic publishing and the Internet itself have made technically possible a slew of novel uses of primary research papers.

  • ’ In other words, memorizing a slew of arcane, recondite sesquipedalianisms is not what gives one the edge, it is knowing how to use the language one already possesses.

  • It pays former Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour $600,000 a year and employs a slew of ex-congressmen.

  • A slew of memoirs and biographies argued that the arrogance of her macho husband Ted Hughes, Britain's current poet laureate, precipitated her suicide.

  • Critics declare Bonnard's landscapes, nudes, and self-portraits more than dated Impressionism, deeming them "[s]ome of the most extraordinary paintings of his quickly ending century" (Christopher Benfey, Slate ). They say that his dreamlike images show a "Proustian" concern with the mechanics of perception and that his later nudes are "tinged with necrophilia" (Francine Prose, the Wall Street Journal ). (MoMA's site serves up a slew of paintings.)


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