Example sentences for: vivid

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

  • If this were a Rube Goldberg contraption, this recollection would remind the writer of the grease spot on page 2, caused by his having eaten a Big Mac, the memory of which conjures up such a vivid image that the writer opens his mouth to take a bite, and a string attached to his lower jaw releases a mouse, the sight of which arouses a cat which chases it, causing the mouse to squeal, awakening a midget who stretches, tripping open a trapdoor; through the trapdoor falls a usage book, sliding down a chute into the hands of the writer.

  • But she's astonishingly vivid in her new film, In Dreams . It's a poetic but ultimately disappointing stab at expressionistic horror, courtesy of Neil Jordan ( The Crying Game , 1992).

  • In Forster's A Passage to India (Chapter XXXI) a vivid picture is created by the sentence “Tangles like this still interrupted their intercourse.”

  • He recommends a half-milligram to 1 milligram, one hour before bed, no more than once a week . Vivid dreams are common ("dreams like you've never dreamed before," says the doc, and I concur), but so is restful sleep.

  • As the narrator explains: "Every moment could be seen to connect to every other moment, every act to have logical if obscure consequences, an unbroken narrative of vivid complexity."


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