Example sentences for: vietnam

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

  • What if the United States had not pulled all its troops out of Vietnam, but left, say, two divisions behind and kept up military and economic aid?

  • It hasn't gotten nearly the attention that Mike Lind's book has, but A Better War deserves strong consideration by anyone still interested in Vietnam.

  • Apart from Warhol's own iconic status, his pose recalls a notorious moment of '60s political theater: Lyndon Johnson's display, to a press corps as yet unaccustomed to familiarity with the intimate anatomy of presidents, of his gall-bladder surgery scar, which illustrator David Levine later rendered as a map of Vietnam.

  • The New York Times Book Review assigned Jeffrey Record to review the book, which seems an odd choice considering that Record just published a book titled The Wrong War: Why We Lost in Vietnam . Record predictably refutes Sorley's thesis ("How does one explain Saigon's fall when, according to Sorley, we had won the war by late 1971?"

  • From that angle, the starkest counterpoint imaginable to Con Air is Ulee's Gold , which begins with a leisurely scene of Ulee Jackson (Peter Fonda), a traumatized Vietnam veteran, aside a swamp, tending impassively to his tupelo honeybees.


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