Example sentences for: western-style

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

  • Western-style nightlife is limited to Senggigi, where some hotels run discos and local groups play in the bar-restaurants.

  • If you’d like to see how the Japanese handle Western-style popular music and dancing, you’ll find good quality jazz clubs, conventional discos (with, naturally, fantastic electronic equipment), and even country-and-western saloons, all in Tokyo’s cosmopolitan restaurant districts of Akasaka and Roppongi.

  • The Meiji Restoration and the opening of Japan to exotic new Western-style amusements further enhanced Asakusa’s reputation as Fun City.

  • The postwar obsession with comfort, convenience, and the latest electronic gadgetry has led most Japanese to forsake the traditional, simple, and elegant house of wooden walls, heavy tiled roofs, tatami-mat floors, and sliding panels for a modern “Western-style” house designed to exchange the austerity of the past for the prosperity of the future.

  • The press conference was strikingly Western-style, says the paper, complete with Zhu's deflection of a serious question about eventual national elections with a quip about pictures of him in Time and Newsweek .


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