Example sentences for: buffoon

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

  • Under its slapstick shenanigans, this modest movie offers a convincing vision of Nixon White House operations as a sordid buffoon show undone by a couple of painfully earnest innocents: It's nature's revenge on the overweening.

  • In Los Pastores, or the Shepherds’ Play, a mystery play performed in Mexico and the Southwest since the sixteenth century, the shepherd who plays the role of a buffoon, a jester, is named Bato.

  • The idea of a jazz guitarist who's also a textbook Freudian hysteric--loose and yet focused when he's onstage, an anxious buffoon when he's off--has comic poetry built into it, and Penn has radar for both the comedy and the poetry.

  • Our Santa is unappetizing, a mall pedophile or a fat buffoon.

  • Puppeteering 101 : As an exercise in spin analysis, Culturebox puts this question to you, dear reader: Who looks more like a buffoon in the wake of James Fallows's leaving U.S.


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