Example sentences for: buffoons

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

  • Titian’s Pietà, a vibrant last work completed by pupil Palma il Giovane, was originally intended for his tomb in the Frari church (see page 131); Veronese’s Feast in the House of Levi was meant to be the Last Supper, until the Holy Inquisition complained about its “buffoons, drunkards, dwarfs, Germans, and similar vulgarities”; Tintoretto gives full play to his dark sense of drama in the Miracle of St. Mark.

  • Today's TV parents are wisdom figures, not the adult buffoons we have grown accustomed to.

  • It dominated the software industry because its rivals were such lightweights and buffoons, and because it hired the smartest and brightest software writers.

  • His advertising executive in Lost in America has zero insight into himself, but he's still an idealist who boldly attempts to live out the escapist fantasies of his generation: He has--as buffoons go--enormous stature.


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