Example sentences for: thrillers

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

  • Mine run less toward schlock romances than schlock thrillers but, hey, I can recognize an expertly engineered, inspirational soap opera when I see one.

  • The plot twists are dismissed as hackneyed, borrowed from Cold War thrillers and courtroom melodramas.

  • He appeared in Douglas Sirk's A Time to Love and a Time to Die ; a film by the mildly celebrated German director Helmut Käutner; Sergio Leone's For a Few Dollars More ; and several crisp English thrillers and war flicks.

  • Franklin, a director of marvelous thrillers such as One False Move (1991) and Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), and of the intricate HBO miniseries Laurel Avenue (1993), must have taken on this project to prove that an African-American filmmaker can bring a fresh perspective to the white-bread tale of mothers and daughters in snowy New England.

  • Yes, it's mechanical, even metronomical, but thrillers are built out of wheels and pulleys and ticking clocks, and De Palma's machines are more intricate than anyone's since Hitchcock.


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