Example sentences for: viva

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

  • The “Viva la Raza!”

  • Scars are not all that's exposed: Flipping through The Sixties you'll catch glimpses of Warhol superstar Viva's pregnant belly and fashion model Veruschka's breasts, as well as (among others) dancer Rudolf Nureyev's penis (impressive, flaccid) and satirist Paul Krassner's (less so, half-erect).

  • It ill behooves me, excoriated recently as enamored of the “cheap larf,” to criticize Safire's arch puns, which permeate—“enliven” is probably the word his editor would use—his articles, but I find some kinds of humor unsuitable for reading, however they might evoke a chuckle when uttered viva voce . A handful of examples, from the book at hand:

  • This is not as daunting as it sounds, because the market is now dominated by four companies: giant Procter & Gamble (Bounty, Charmin, and Puffs), and three other products of merger mania Kimberly-Clark (Scott, Kleenex, and Viva), Georgia-Pacific (Coronet, Sparkle, Angel Soft, and MD), and Fort James (Brawny, Quilted Northern, and Green Forest).

  • That is patent rubbish, of course, for it can easily be demonstrated that written language cannot be ignored for a variety of reasons: the more formalized versions of language that are reflected there, the relatively complex constructions that are accepted as normal to writing but would be difficult to construct viva voce and difficult to assimilate unless read, the preservation of fossilized forms--both words and grammar--made possible by written records, and so on.


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