Sample Sentences for
genre
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    I worked my way through every videogame genre and platform.  (source)
    genre = category
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    According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment waiver in his courage, and his spirit soared like an indomitable eagle until the world itself could not contain his joyous soul.  (source)
    genre = kind of literature
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    She wants to write stories that ignore borders between genres, between written and spoken, between highbrow literature and children's nursery rhymes, between New York and the imaginary village of Macondo, between the U.S. and Mexico.  (source)
    genres = styles or kinds
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    As a young adult writer, I hear often of the negative portrayals of parents in my genre, but I am convinced that YA has nothing on fairy tales for evil parents (see, e.g., Hansel and Gretel, Snow White). This was how I conceived my story—unsugarcoated, though still with a happily ever after.  (source)
    genre = style of
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    ...then tried to reconstruct the history of painting, including schools, styles, genres, and names of painters from...  (source)
    genres = styles or kinds (of painting--such as impressionism)
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    How can you just rule out an entire genre?  (source)
    genre = a style or kind -
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    They play the classics and run programs devoted to different directors or genres or obscure Brazilian actresses or whatever.†  (source)
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    It's the one dance that intersects every genre.†  (source)
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    To discreet orchestral accompaniment, a veritable international chorus of celebrated singers, male and female, put their highly trained, God-given talents to good use in arias, duets, ensemble scenes from all the many epochs and genres of musical theater: the Mediterranean bel canto, captivating in both its lighthearted and noble forms; a German world of folklore, rogues, and demons; French opera, grand and comic.†  (source)
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    But no single star of the genre captivated Osip more than Humphrey Bogart.†  (source)
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    The philhellenic elites of the Roman Empire, for whom Greek was virtually a second language, used Homer's texts as a staple of higher education and ranked the heroic epic as the noblest of poetic genres.†  (source)
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    "Should it matter what genre it is if the book is good?" he says.†  (source)
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    Chief among them were classic videogames, sci-fi and fantasy novels, and movies of all genres.  (source)
    genres = styles or kinds
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