Sentence examples for corny line from inspiring English sources

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"He had this corny line, 'Who is the lovely woman with the pretty smile?' " she recalled.

While protesting that it's Europe, not him, who has changed (a corny line from the divorce courts) and that he's joining the underdog team, Boris is actually lining up with the team that makes him feel better – not ordinary folk who feel left behind in modern Britain and vent their distress against immigrants, but the oligarch media pack and dodgier elements in the City.

It may be a corny line, but there's someone out there for everyone.

And I'd love for him to come back, if only for one moment, and even just to say that one corny line: "Ditto".

A corny line from the playbook of the younger Bush, suggesting a false analogy between a gunfight and a world war, but Obama at the start of an election year knew very well what the script called for.

Their sole hit was "Old Joe's Place," an ode to a nonexistent road house whose punchline is Shearer singing in a basso profundo, "Ea... Ah... Oe's!" He delivers the insanely corny line at the Folksmen's reunion show with the earnestness of an old-time comic who knows his joke's going to land before he even finishes it.

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I bought into Nessa's intimidation of the nurse, employing corny lines in the manner of someone who isn't comfortable behaving that way.

Of all the corny lines and ready-made catchphrases in Mr. Cameron's script, perhaps none has turned out to be so provocative as one uttered by Grace Augustine, the scientist played by Sigourney Weaver: "Where's my damn cigarette?" In the view of anti-smoking activists, the correct answer should be: Nowhere, at least not in any real or imaginary world governed by a PG-13 rating.

Eight-year-old boys are the world's leading experts in quoting corny lines from movies.

In spite of their cliché conventions and corny lines, Trevorrow's films are destined to succeed.

Since this was a Spike Lee production, the play also included a Nina Simone soundtrack, jokes about Mitt Romney, and corny lines like, "The way you fight your fights is the way you lead your life".

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