Example sentences for: bathos

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

  • As the younger daughter, the dark eyed, spaghetti thin Claire Forlani has to carry the picture's bathos on her exquisite shoulders.

  • (Prudie doesn't care for these "Christmas letters" to begin with, finding them most often little packages of braggadocio and bathos.

  • The bathos of this sentence and the placement of the story--a lead nobody else but the WSJ even has on the front page--is a reminder of the penchant the Times has for overplaying money.

  • There are brilliant moments--a flickering, black-and-white dream, in which they're separate and riding bicycles, is like a gorgeous home movie from the '20s unearthed from someone's basement--but the mixture of Diane Arbus freakiness and heart-tugging bathos finally feels a little cheap.

  • Only the threat of, say, an alien abduction could make a man watch all the way through this domestic bathos.


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