Example Sentences

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This is not Warren Beatty sexily robbing a bank as Clyde Barrow or a 2003-era Johnny Depp winking at the camera as pirate Jack Sparrow.

From Salon • May 31, 2024

If “Blood & Oil” tries merely to work Shakespearian family dynamics, it may have a hard time; there’s another show already doing that, better and more sexily, called “Empire.”

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2015