Example sentences for: vignettes

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

  • Across the street is the incongruous but elegant Toyota Automobile Showroom, once the Chamber of Commerce and worth noting for its fine blue-and-white azulejo (tile) vignettes that depict scenes from old Madeira.

  • Scattered here and there are helpful vignettes that focus on ancillary matters—SPOTTING A RESTRICTIVE CLAUSE, THE HISTORY OF THE SEMICOLON, etc.

  • Following doctors, nurses, and administrators around the Duke Medical Center, Time offers vignettes of modern hospital life.

  • If these vignettes strike sympathetic chords, then science fiction's words, phrases, and lore have permeated your thought and language.

  • As I skim Flowers in the Dustbin for fresh anecdotes (which we agree may be the book's real pleasure), I realize how many of Miller's vignettes seem chosen with an eye to '90s academic interests--gender, thanatos, whiteness studies.


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