Sample Sentences for
matinée
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    The matinee audience was made up chiefly of women.  (source)
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    It's Sunday, but there's always one or two matinees going on Sunday.†  (source)
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    "You could go to a matinee," said Georgina, "and eat popcorn."†  (source)
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    I felt like I'd been traveling for weeks, like I'd been dodging lions and tigers on a safari through the jungle, trying to get to the Lost Diamond City buried in the Congo, which happened to be the theme of the last matinee I'd seen in Sylvan before leaving.†  (source)
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    The Nickel Boys called the official cemetery Boot Hill, from the Saturday matinees they had enjoyed before they were sent to the school and exiled from such pastimes.†  (source)
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    Owing to a brick received in the latter half of the matinée.†  (source)
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    Though there were several movies we both would have liked, I'd chosen a matinee at the Boris Karloff film festival: The Body Snatcher.†  (source)
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    Kids stayed away from Finsterwald's the way old people stay away from Saturday afternoon matinees at a two-dollar movie.†  (source)
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    The word /matinée/ offers a convenient example.†  (source)
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    Or else we would go to a matinee, which Mother loved, and we would see two, three films, come out in the dark, our eyes bleary, ears ringing, fingers smelling of popcorn.†  (source)
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    We were used to the Saturday matinees at the decrepit Gravesend movie house, inexplicably called The Idaho—after the faraway western state or the potato of that name, we never knew.†  (source)
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    /Cañon/ was changed to /canyon/ years ago, and the cases of /exposé/, /divorcée/, /schmierkäse/, /employé/ and /matinée/ are familiar.†  (source)
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    Maybe we can go catch a matinee.†  (source)
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