Example sentences for: stereotypical

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

  • Staccato violins pluck out stereotypical Chinese music.

  • He/She/It is a dead ringer for the stereotypical Unsolved Mysteries alien--big baby eyes, bulging alien forehead, tiny ears, silver skin.

  • The divorcing Amy is marginally more believable as a woman whose life has taken a scary new turn than the unflappable single Syd ever was--Amy gets flustered; she doesn't know what to wear; her clothes don't seem designed to show off an improbably sculpted body, as Syd's do; she has no pat reasons for having left her husband; her mom, played by Tyne Daly, is pitch-perfect as the smart, confident older woman who quashes her daughter (she's a more compelling character than Syd's father, a wan veterinarian who can do no wrong); and Amy's own daughter--well, Amy's daughter is unbearable, a stereotypical know-it-all TV tyke.

  • Where alternative country runs into trouble is its tendency to ignore what's durable about country in favor of its stereotypical hay-bales-and-whiskey-bottles shtick.

  • He was an actor and performer who dressed as a stereotypical pachuco and zoot-suiter.


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