Example sentences for: starring

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

  • Even when Forrest Sawyer is sitting in, it's still World News Tonight With Peter Jennings . Just because Johnny goes on vacation, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson doesn't suddenly become The Tonight Show With Jay Leno . The task of a guest host is delicate.

  • Critics disagree on the merits of this sendup of academia starring Richard Dreyfuss.

  • This road-cum-boxing movie starring Woody Harrelson and Antonio Banderas is both trite and strange: On one hand it "knocks the Rocky tradition on its ear by giving us two boxers to root for in the same match" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), but despite this departure from convention, it manages to include "an assembly of ancient and familiar prizefight clichés" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Director Ron Shelton ( Bull Durham ) is a veteran of successful sports movies, but this one lacks the "off-the-wall larkiness" of his previous efforts (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). The film culminates in a gruesome fight between the two stars that leaves several critics bemoaning the confusion over whom to root for; others contend that the scene's emotional conflict works in its favor.

  • Life Is Beautiful, written and directed by and starring Italian Roberto Benigni (he starred in Down by Law , 1986), has won international acclaim for wedding sentimental, Chaplinesque slapstick to a story that finishes up in a concentration camp with Jews being gassed and roasted.

  • He is also author of Chance , which won the National Book Award, and Being There , which was turned into a movie starring Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine.


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