Example sentences for: yorker

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

  • 89 for four magazines--Entertainment Weekly, People, the New Yorker and Newsweek."

  • To New Yorker writers, Mr. Shawn was a brilliant, commanding editor, whose pen could make a phrase sparkle on the page.

  • The movie's simple-minded Tory-baiting "wears its bleeding heart conspicuously on its sleeve," says Stephen Holden in the New York Times . "You might feel like one of Thatcher's miners--manipulated, misled and maneuvered into an emotional corner," says John Anderson in the Los Angeles Times . The New Yorker 's Anthony Lane, however, praises the movie's feel for the British working class, "forced to sustain their flagging souls by quickness of wit."

  • In The New Yorker , Gore Vidal defends Seymour Hersh's Kennedy-bashing book: "The fact that [Hersh has] found more muck in this particular Augean stable than most people want to acknowledge is hardly his fault."

  • Congratulations go to Howard Kurtz of the WP : His article (in the Style section) was the only one at all five papers not to use the words "venerated" or "venerable" to describe the New Yorker .


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