Example sentences for: style

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

  • In the chapter on Style, I expected to find under punctuation a fuller treatment than that afforded: I looked in vain for two things, the wisdom offered regarding serial commas (whether or when the second comma is required or desirable in A, B, and C, and what the position is on the use of a comma following etc. in the middle of a sentence).

  • Over the years Trevor Howard, Margot Fonteyn, and Marlene Dietrich brought their own inimitable style to the festival.

  • Over its years of use as a church, three surrounding houses were added to create extra space, and several of the other rooms are furnished in authentic 18th-century style.

  • Years ago, when he was still a film critic, Paul Schrader wrote an evocative study of the directors Ozu, Bresson, and Dreyer that he called Transcendental Style in Cinema . How odd that the style of Schrader's new movie, Affliction , is as torturously untranscendent as a work of cinema can get.

  • Novelist Ishmael Reed stepped closer to an incendiary line, writing in the Baltimore Sun that the African-American affinity for Clinton stems partly from the fact that the president has "a black style" and even "walks black."


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