Example sentences for: strauss

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

  • If successful, a retailer’s private-label program can capitalize on the same type of strong brand recognition that has yielded profits to companies like Levi Strauss or more recently Tommy Hilfiger.

  • His friendships with the likes of writer and critic Georges Bataille, philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, and linguist Roman Jakobson were formative in ways that he either fails to note or misleadingly acknowledges.

  • 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.

  • Sometimes, when I see this comedian's bit rerun on cable, I imagine Pep Strauss"--a hit man in the hit-man organization called Murder Inc.--"entering stage left and cutting him belly to chin."

  • Last night a friend tried to describe to me the differences between West Coast Straussians and East Coast ones--apparently this is an important split among social conservatives over the teachings of philosopher Leo Strauss.


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