Example sentences for: vivid

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

  • They are anything but morbid, though; they possess a vivid, throbbing life.

  • Her lips as vivid as the plumage of the vermilion flycatcher, Monica Lewinsky returns this week to the covers of the Star and the National Enquirer . In a detailed account of her White House trysts, the Star portrays Lewinsky as a sort of Jewish Salome, arousing the president with her dance of the Gap dress, only to hand the independent counsel the head of Bill the Southern Baptist.

  • On Lakeview Drive is the Diefenbaker Homestead, brought here from near Saskatoon to give a vivid insight into the simple country life led by Saskatchewan’s most famous son before he went off to Ottawa “to show them Yanks and Ruskies a thing or two.”

  • The most vivid moments in Kubrick's films in the last 30 years have come when he has turned his actor's faces into masks: Think of Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange (1971), Jack Nicholson in The Shining (1980), and Vincent D'Onofrio in Full Metal Jacket (1987).

  • My designation derives from a splash of vivid writing in Francis Thompson's A Corymbus for Autumn in which he proclaims how “day's dying dragon” was


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