Example sentences for: wholesome

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

  • Still, the obituaries make it clear that both Rogers and his wife Dale Evans achieved something altogether missing from show business today: wholesome fame based on actual wholesomeness.

  • The leads, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Julia Stiles, are "scrubbed, wholesome and bland," while the writer-director Kris Isacsson "flees from anything that might involve real human emotion, or for that matter any credible human activity other than looking good" (A.O.

  • a piece of celestial Americana" (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Maslin calls it "a supremely improbable triumph," all the more powerful because the film's "wholesome radiance and soothing natural beauty are distinctly at odds with the famously unwholesome Lynch imagination" (the New York Times ). Turan is the only one who hears the faint sucking of Dennis Hopper's oxygen mask in the background, calling the film "too mannered and weird around the edges to be convincing" (the Los Angeles Times ). (Lynchnet has a page devoted to the film complete with trailers and pictures shot on location.)

  • New Yorker and Newsweek , concluding that the movie is mythic and wholesome but made Hollywood care more about special effects than about acting.

  • Two-piece bathing suits are so much a part of wholesome American life that the world's wives and daughters have been wearing them for decades, and navels of all ages are a customary sight.


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