Example sentences for: strauss

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

  • In reporting on the news that blue jean manufacturer Levi Strauss is downsizing, headline writers have trouble finding a new, er, wrinkle.

  • And its Creole-inflected language is described as "prose saturated in a kind of bemused gorgeousness" (Richard Bernstein, the New York Times ). The New Yorker 's John Updike dissents, calling Chamoiseau too self-conscious, "a Céline who has read Lévi-Strauss and Derrida.

  • Emanuel Strauss

  • Apropos of Neil Strauss's interview with Billy Corgan, the lead singer of the Smashing Pumpkins, in Wednesday's New York Times , Culturebox was moved to ask several real and self-styled rock historians (and who isn't the latter?)

  • The Wu-Tang Clan has entered the "stagnant hip-hop scene like a slap in the face, parading its strikingly original gutter funk like a ghetto peacock" (Matt Diehl, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics admire the group's eclectic influences--including funk, flamenco, and psychedelic--and its lyrics, "as dense, obsessed, prolific and full of popular and arcane references as a Pynchon novel" (Neil Strauss, the New York Times ). (Clips are available here.)


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