Example sentences for: world--the

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

  • I love your interpretation of the wizard world as parallel to the gay world--the young wizard's gradual recognition of his difference, the sudden revelation that there are tons of other people like him.

  • The UI is the face the software presents to the world--the set of devices (buttons to click, blanks to fill in, and so on) by which users are able to tell the software what to do.

  • Because of the tremendous vogue of such images, collected and reworked by Edgar Degas and Claude Monet and Mary Cassatt and then adopted in our own popular culture, we recognize immediately the polymorphous personae of the floating world--the sumo wrestlers, the geisha and her admirers (see Kitagawa Utamaro, The Mosquito Net , circa 1797), and the swashbuckling samurai.

  • A lot of this can be chalked up to primary-heath-care programs in the developing world--the African average, for instance, has dropped from 135 deaths per 1000 births to 95.


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