Example sentences for: tropes

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

  • Some critics are less generous and note a heavy reliance on melodrama and film noir tropes; the Daily News ' Fintan O'Toole writes that the play is no "lost masterpiece."

  • Scholars in the field decode and debunk the literary tropes that rhetorically separate "normal" from "abnormal" bodies.

  • Abraham Lincoln wrote the Second Inaugural Address knowing full well that his biblical tropes ("woe unto the world because of offenses!"

  • It certainly defies the standard tropes of writing about young people--all that stuff about how it's OK to be yourself, even if you're different.


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