How to Use critique in a Sentence

critique

1 of 2 noun
  • They gave a fair and honest critique of her art.
  • She wrote a radical critique of the philosopher's early essays.
  • The singer went on to re-audition for the role, taking critiques from the class.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2024
  • That might be a little bit of a harsh critique of the Mountain West.
    Bill Oram, oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2023
  • That’s a fair critique but also overlooks the fact that, for a decade, Twitter has been the most important news outlet in the world.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 4 May 2023
  • When the older dancers get their turn, instructors teach more advanced moves and critique form.
    Marisa Iati, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Katy Perry was booed for the first time as an Idol judge on Monday night's episode for her critique of a Top 26 contestant.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • His closing remark carries a tinge of arch critique, yet the salesman is free to ignore it.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • There were also some critiques of the film and most of the critiques centered on the woman protagonist.
    Michael Calore, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2023
  • In a letter to the editor in response, Fry's son James rejects her critique.
    Town & Country, 8 Apr. 2023
  • In the end, a critique session refined their demonstrations.
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Wells' review included some critique of the joint's pizza, but the snacks and salad offered on Stretch's menu were up to par.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The class critique is indeed one of the things Death and Other Details does most proudly, albeit rarely with insight.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Those critiques, fairly or unfairly, are aimed at the Matadors’ first-year head coach.
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
  • This isn’t the first of Musk’s economic predictions, coupled with a Fed critique.
    Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 5 July 2023
  • There was no mention of these critiques in Wednesday’s comments.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But the critiques that Salle offered did help improve the machine’s intelligence enough to surprise the artist.
    Zachary Small, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Don't take it as a critique of your company, but rather as reasons that made the winning shop the better choice to achieve success at this time/for this project.
    Laura Silver, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins had the team in a good position to try to score in the first five minutes of the game and could have started to put all the naysaying and critiques behind him.
    Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The script is no less on-the-nose about its politics, and in any case, Gerwig and Baumbach’s social critiques seem more than reasonable.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 18 July 2023
  • This insight, as Spieler suggests, is not merely a critique but a call for reform.
    Maria Williams, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Gay addressed these critiques in a New York Times op-ed about her resignation.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Some of his most iconic critiques come from Kitchen Nightmares, like when a cook at one restaurant put carrots in a caesar salad.
    Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 15 May 2023
  • This is a familiar critique of the neoliberal era, one in which a few prospered but many were left behind.
    Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Every note that was true, every critique that was impactful and smart, would hurt my feelings.
    Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Oct. 2023
  • But even within that critique, Collins leaves room for a soulful folk singer — the title’s metaphorical songbird — to serve as the voice of resistance.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
  • That’s how all the political critiques go, stopping at the point of fridge-magnet quotations.
    Vulture, 22 June 2023
  • There are Purim spiels which re-enact the story (with the audience drowning out the name of Haman), often mapping it onto social critiques of the day.
    Deena Prichep, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024
  • What, truly, is the likelihood that Adario has never seen a critique of blackface or a #stopasianhate hashtag?
    Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 1 May 2023
  • This one happened to be his biggest supporter, not that having the same last name would keep Chase Garbers from sharing any critiques.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
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critique

2 of 2 verb
  • The class convened to critique the student's latest painting.
  • First, North critiqued the gaps in the pearls, saying her dress looked ripped.
    Genevieve Cepeda, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Katy isn’t sure how to critique him but wants to bathe him in lavender oil to calm him down.
    Rodney Ho, ajc, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Ru didn't even critique me, which was kind of c--ty and iconic!
    Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The pastor wrote a blog post that did not critique Mr. Trump by name, but whose point was clear.
    New York Times, 9 May 2022
  • In the morning, Neil would bring a sample of his wiring to the workshop and ask Kimura to critique it.
    Robert Moor, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Of course, the more the user edits and critiques ChatGPT, the better the result will be.
    Paige Hagy, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2023
  • As in a writing workshop, each student has to bring in two games to critique.
    Wired, 20 July 2022
  • Don't be afraid to use your own judgment to critique any tales that come your way, even if doing so may spoil the fun.
    Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2022
  • There’s a lot to critique about the performance of Bryan Harsin’s squad, especially in the first half.
    al, 11 Sep. 2022
  • At one point, Lei asks his grandfather to critique his work.
    Richard Kuipers, Variety, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Her videos have become a meme on the app, and adult creators have mocked her and critiqued her appearance.
    Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2023
  • And the last were given instructions to debate and critique.
    Quartz, 6 Dec. 2022
  • In a way, not much has changed; red carpet fashion is still critiqued and discussed at length.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2024
  • People are afraid to critique their own side — and unwilling to be friends with anyone on the other side.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Nov. 2022
  • No one who is happy with themselves has time to critique Lizzo.
    Ariana Garcia, Chron, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Honea also critiqued the lack of contingency funds in the plan.
    Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 31 Jan. 2024
  • King went on to share a clip from one of her on-camera interviews from the night, critiquing her own dazed performance.
    Lydia Price, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The chooser then takes off their clothes so the potential dates can critique their body before a final choice is made.
    Rudie Obias, Variety, 26 Sep. 2023
  • And once again Ephron slyly pokes at the tropes of courtship, using the grammar of classic, nineteen-fifties romance films to critique the genre.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The group critiqued audition videos for potential Rays and Marthas.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • Part of the resilience of antisemitism is its resistance to critique.
    Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Gutierrez is not the first person to spoof the genre, nor the first to critique the industry for lack of inclusivity.
    Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • For some, having every move, word, and body part critiqued by the internet is a special kind of horror house.
    WIRED, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Horror movies have often existed as much for thrills as to critique the times.
    Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2022
  • People were trying on clothes and critiquing the outfits.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Just as Jasper Johns used the flag and beer cans to critique our ideas of the sacred and the disposable, Saar uses objects to address the power of the image in America.
    Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Arguably, documentaries feed into the looky-looism that The Princess sets out to critique.
    Vulture, 27 July 2022
  • At 37-13 two-plus months until the playoffs, the Warriors have provided little to critique.
    Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Jan. 2022
  • One laureate, Friedrich von Hayek, used his Nobel Banquet speech to critique the prize.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 10 Oct. 2022

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