Example sentences for: thirtysomething

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

  • The successful debut of Once and Again , the new drama (from the creators of thirtysomething , no less) about having a love life as a divorced parent, has drawn plenty of hosannas from TV-watchers who feared that the tube had forever been given over to Dawson's Creek and its myriad clones.

  • There is, for instance, the increasingly annoying Sports Night , a sitcom that combines the most irritating aspects of David Mamet and thirtysomething . Forthwith, the ABC spokesperson's remarks, as scripted by Sports Night contributor Aaron Sorkin:

  • When I consider the inclusion in Africana of Tupac Shakur and his cohort of the rappers, I wonder whether black academia has been hijacked by a crew of thirtysomething know-nothings who actually think this stuff is important.

  • 1 spot at the box office and had the second-largest opening ever for a comedy (behind the recent Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ). Its premise: A thirtysomething slacker adopts a child to demonstrate his maturity to his wary girlfriend.

  • The brittle, shallow, single, gold-digging, thirtysomething protagonist of Janowitz's latest hate letter to Manhattan is pronounced so unpleasant as to make the entire novel (which follows her search for a suitably rich and connected husband) quite a drag: "A hateful heroine and a catalog of conspicuous consuming do not an amusing read make" (Elizabeth Gleick, Time ). "One of the least likable characters in modern fiction history.


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