Example sentences for: so-so

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

  • Outstanding performances from Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, and Joaquin Phoenix are thwarted by a so-so story line.

  • Kate Winslet's first post- Titanic film, the tale of a British woman's journey to Marrakech in the 1970s in search of adventure and Sufi wisdom, gets high marks on aesthetics and so-so marks on plot: It's "better at creating a picturesque travelogue than at building a compelling narrative and full-bodied characters" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). The New York Times ' Janet Maslin goes gaga for the whole package, saying Winslet's performance as the naive young woman who drags her two daughters to the ends of the earth "perfectly captures [her] as a well-meaning mother who has no notion that she need be anything but self absorbed."

  • Melanie Griffith and James Woods play a drug-addled couple who adopt a pair of young thugs-in-training while on a road-trip-cum-crime-spree in a sort of '90s version of Bonnie and Clyde . Critics like this better than director Larry Clark's first film, the teen shocker Kids , and Woods' performance is called "scene stealing" (Richard Corliss, Time ). Overall, though, reviews are so-so.

  • Dis Hebben na de place wey we go lib after we dun die if we no do so-so bad ting for dis Eart.

  • A clever idea--incorporating common urban myths into a traditional horror movie--paired with so-so execution results in a lukewarm set of reviews.


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