Example sentences for: staple

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

  • Worse, toxins from the plant have greatly reduced the availability of a staple of the tits' diet: green caterpillars.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • In 1974, the radical historian Eugene Genovese (who has since become a Catholic conservative) published Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made . Now a staple in college history courses, Roll, Jordan, Roll painted a picture of slaves not as mere victims of oppression but as creators of a vibrant life.

  • TV shows about "stranger abductions" are a media staple to this day.


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast