Example sentences for: caricature

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

  • It takes a while to get oriented in Leigh's movies, which, for all their social-realist trappings, frequently explode into caricature and high-theatrical artifice.

  • The Washington Post groaned that Burton "once again lived up to his caricature" as an overzealous idiot and pointed out that his real crime has been to distract attention from the transcripts, which indicate that White House "emissaries" encouraged Hubbell and his wife to fear their livelihood depended on remaining silent about the Clintons' roles in Whitewater.

  • He's so frightened of communicating with his children that he has to caricature himself . The source of his comedy is also what makes him tragic.

  • Less obviously clever than McGreevey's caricature of Whitman, the spot makes artful use of the personal to validate the political.

  • His major characters--namely the failing honcho Croker and the gimlet-eyed Mayor Wes Jordan--are more human and less caricature, though the minor ones, including all the women, are still cartoons.


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