Vocabulary Sample Sentences

I will unveil the last section of the syllabus soon.

The teacher's grading system is diabolical.

It is hard to be happy when one sees all of the human misery in the world.

Dude, I'm trying to watch The Simpsons. Be quiet!

Every month my co-workers and I go to the union meeting to discuss work.

An embassy contains representatives of a foreign country.

She signed a contract to be a model for Chanel perfume.

He went to Macao and won a lot of money gambling. But he got too greedy, kept gambling, and lost all of the money that he won.

When my daughter was young, I would shake a rattle to make her stop crying. She was interested in the sound the rattle made.

Whoever said McDonald's made good food is a liar.

That guy is a speed freak: he always drives his car very fast.

The president of the union is a firebrand: when he gives a speech, everyone listens.

The rain thwarted my effort to take my wife out for a picnic. [Picnic: a meal eaten outside in a park.]

The bank manager is crooked; he steals money from the bank.

I wanted more money at my job, but I'm not a good negotiator, so I couldn't convince my boss to give me a raise. [raise=increase in salary]

I periodically clean the house so it won't get too dirty.

My apartment predates the three prong electrical outlet: there are only two holes in each plug.

I have decided that the girl who gets better grades on all the tests is my adversary. I have to beat her score on the final exam!

The baseball player entered into negotiation with the team to determine how much money he would make next year.

He does not seem friendly. Every time I talk to him, he is very impersonal.

He is a computer wizz. He saved my hard drive after I thought it was destroyed. He is the number one computer repair person in the country!

I know you are mad at me, but hear me out. I am sorry for what I did.

She decided she didn't like her job, so she resigned.

Some people think Asian men have girlish figures.

After the beautiful girl said she would date him, Tom proceeded to strut down the street.

I don't understand all of this foofaraw about Global Warming.

She went on a tirade about how angry she was at the way she is treated at work.

An Inconvenient Truth is a chilling look at the effects of Global Warming.

Genghis Khan was a brilliant tactician who conquered a large part of Asia with his army.