Example sentences for: staple

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

  • One is given to wonder how manufacturers of other staple consumer products manage to come up with identical packaging (say, 1 pint, 10 fluidounces or 2 pounds 13 ounces) and identical pricing on supermarket shelves without being in collusion; even the most cursory view of college dictionary publishing at once reveals a most extraordinary example of the workings of “market forces”: no publisher wants to be the first to break the $20 barrier; the Indexed edition of the Random House is the first to touch that mystical figure.

  • He gives us a history of the term "oldies but goodies," and mentions "In the Still of the Night," scarcely noticed when it came out in 1956, but by 1959 a staple of the oldies circuit.

  • Next, we see a staple of this year's drug ads--kids gathered in a school hallway.

  • For starters, she said, Y2K is efficient, since it uses just three characters; similarly structured acronyms such as IBM, NBC, and GTE are a staple these days.

  • A staple newspaper feature is the academic convention piece, which features elbow-patched and distracted professors virtually unaware that they've plopped down into a big hotel in a big city because they're so terminally immersed in their profession, such as it is.


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