Example sentences for: staple

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

  • Part of the reason that Putnam's article resonated so strongly outside elite circles-- People magazine profiled him in a bowling alley--is that in using the example of bowling, that staple of 1950s, Putnam touched on a powerful chord of nostalgia for the America of that golden decade.

  • By 1993, the air bag was a staple of the industry, four years before federal law makes dual air bags mandatory in all new cars.

  • This expression was a staple of business thinking in the '80s, and was epitomized by the experience of RJR Nabisco, which became the subject of a huge bidding war after its management tried to take the company private in a leveraged buyout.

  • Party entrepreneurs were often newspaper editors and postmasters, and postmasterships quickly became a staple of party patronage.

  • Broadway's revival of this amateur-theater staple gets solid reviews and a few performers get all-out raves, most notably Kristin Chenoweth as Sally Brown.


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