FILM in a Sentence

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For FILM, below is one of 230 sentences:
I was always saying: go to a good instructive film, but do for goodness sake keep away from these melodramas and love films.

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 Meanings and Examples of FILM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
film
 n.  a thin coating or layer
 v.  record in film
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  It blazed a soft yellow, a lambent light under a film of velvet; it filled the caverns behind the eyes with light.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
2  A film fell over her eyes, shutting off the present.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
3  I was always saying: go to a good instructive film, but do for goodness sake keep away from these melodramas and love films.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
4  The groundwork of the face was hopefulness; but over it now I ay like a foreign substance a film of anxiety and grief.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
5  A thin film of recent mud was left upon his skin.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
6  His eye became a degree less opaque: it was as though an incipient film had been removed from it, and she felt the pride of a skilful operator.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
7  The feature film portrayed a brave young Yankee who conquered a South American republic.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
8  The film was a highly advertised and abysmal thing smacking of simpering hair-dressers, cheap perfume, red-plush suites on the back streets of tenderloins, and complacent fat women chewing gum.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  Awfully exciting film, said Ethel Clark.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
10  A film still veiled his eyes but they burned no longer.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
11  He had not died but he had faded out like a film in the sun.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
12  But I know that as I worked at it, every flake and film of colour seemed to me to reveal my secret.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
13  A thin film of ice bordered the flat, reed-grown lake.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
14  Soot had perched on a low branch and drawn up one leg and dropped the gray film drowsily over his eyes.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
15  Soot had pushed away a squirrel and huddled close to him on his shoulder, the gray film dropped over his eyes.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The film centres around the amorous adventures/exploits of its handsome hero.
17  The film is a visual art.
18  The film Titanic thrilled the audience.
19  The film looks back at Spain's glorious past.
20  Brisbane has become the boom town for Australian film and television.
21  We saw the film and afterwards walked home together.
22  The hero of the film finally finds his true self.
23  There was some pisser of a film about a boy and his dog on TV last night.
24  I watched the film on TV.
25  The plot of the film was too involved - I couldn't understand it.
26  The part of the film judged to be pornographic was cut from the final version.
27  In the film version, Kenneth Branagh played the hero.
28  The sex scenes had been cut out of the English version of the film.
29  The critics panned the film version of the novel.
30  The film version requires greater suspension of disbelief than the book.