Example sentences for: barker

How can you use “barker” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To me, the funniest comedians by far, chiefly because much of their humor is linguistic in nature, are the Two Ronnies (Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett), whose TV appearances came to an end early in 1988 with Barker's announced retirement to run a business in antiques, for which he doubtlessly acquired a taste from Benny Hill's jokes.

  • Barker might have crafted his subjects' monologues from their own words, but he has robbed them of their spontaneity--and, thus, of their essence.

  • References Arias 1975; Barker 1950; Cerda and Farias 1953; Katz 1974; Rodriguez 1993; Smethurst 1995

  • He's fun to watch, but he's not the performer Carville is--Carville, who comes through in the documentary The War Room as a titanic operator, a barker whose appetite for politics is mesmerizing to the point of messianism.

  • Calling his own film "an exercise in mendacity," Barker goes on, "I'm quite happy to tell lies about my characters and even collude with their self-delusions if it enables me to communicate larger dramatic truths."


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