Example sentences for: caricatures

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

  • It's that the caricatures are grounded in sympathy instead of derision.

  • Seeing the picture in Washington brings out something I've always felt about this image: that the figures, especially the young man to the left wearing what appears to be a Union Army hat, look like caricatures of African-Americans.

  • Critics heap praise on Cuban-born Valdés' second novel: The "rambunctious new novel is an appetizingly rich stew, full of the varied flavors of Latin culture … sumptuous …exuberantly translated" (Anderson Tepper, the New York Times Book Review ). Spanning 50 years in the life of a country girl who moves to Havana, the book is "a messy, passionate indictment of Fidel Castro's Cuba, packed with grotesque caricatures, implausible crises and generous dollops of magic realism" (Gabriella Stern, the Wall Street Journal ). (Read the first chapter here, courtesy of the New York Times .)

  • You’ll wade your way through jugglers, fire-eaters, tarot-card readers, lottery-ticket sellers, more mimes, mendicants, and many artists rapidly knocking out portraits, caricatures, and chalk masterwork reproductions on the pavement.

  • Mixed reviews for Wendy Wasserstein's comedy based on the Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood incidents, with recognizable caricatures of Hillary Clinton, Naomi Wolf, and Andrew Sullivan.


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