Sentence examples for used familiar from inspiring English sources

The stamps used familiar photographs of the subjects, but with a twist: in the originals, the men are smoking; in the stamps, the cigarettes are missing.

Andy Warhol used familiar photographic images, from cereal packets to Hollywood pin-ups, to point up how all-pervasive and manipulative mass- market images had become.

In the nineteen-thirties and forties, the country's nationalist government promoted writers who used familiar Japanese forms, rather than those who wove Western influences into their work.

They used familiar stamping grounds -- mostly small religious boarding schools, like Al Mukmin in the village of Ngruki in central Java -- to regroup, and plot their terror attacks.

The Coens have always used familiar elements of American pop culture and features of particular American landscapes to create elaborate and hermetic worlds.

They used familiar Dead strategies: bluegrassy phrasing on lines far outside the bluegrass idiom, group pauses with glimmering sustained notes, fleet overlapping scales that unfurled like maypole ribbons and transitions that layered the next rhythm atop the previous one, lingering in a sonic moire pattern.

Captions that start out using familiar estate agent lingo, inviting us to "survey the modern open plan interior", soon take an odd turn.

Nevertheless, as a test for familiarity, we repeated the pay-for-listen task using familiar auditory stimuli.

But these authors mostly work in traditional novelistic formats, using familiar language.

Tataloo's music video unfolds within this context and uses familiar tropes seen throughout the past decade.

Peele uses familiar devices and situations in order to defamiliarize them".