Saturday, April 26, 2014

malarkey sample sentences

He thinks everything politicians say is just a bunch of malarkey.




The claims were just a lot of malarkey.




You've been watching too much cable news and falling for all that malarkey .




He was snookered by a lot of malarkey.




Don't give me any of that malarkey about you're friends were all doing it as well.




That guy at the tiller is talking a bunch of malarky.




Mangle Sample Sentences

He threatened to mangle the sheets if he did not receive a refund.




The thresher will easily mangle an automobile.




The coat sleeve was mangled in the gears of the machine.




Some journalists get it mostly right, some mangle what I have said beyond repair.

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

sententious sample sentences

They succeeded, becoming prosperous, and piety mingled with smugness made the whole family insufferably sententious.




To be really bad, a film should be pretentious and sententious.




Angela’s boss welcomed her sententious comments, which were succinct and to the point.




He makes all those sententious remarks and uses cliched maxims just to appear clever and important.




He thought his speech would come off as intellectual and profound, but I found it to be sententious and pompous.