Example sentences for: success--the

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

  • He lives them, wears them, and so is proofed against the temptation to follow the (logical) sequel to bourgeois success--the urge to abandon the self-denial that made it all possible, to mock your colleagues and spurn your peers, to return no e-mail, to call in sick from the beach house, to drink $20 bottles of wine every night, to watch porno movies in bed with ironic comp-lit graduate students, and to vanish for days on end in pursuit of un-bourgeois happiness.

  • Yet the nation failed to parlay its biggest public-relations success--the October 1995 Million Man March --into greater influence and membership.


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