Example sentences for: comedies

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

  • It's embarrassing to admit this, but while I was walking in to work today half asleep, I actually spilled my corner-convenience-store coffee all over myself, the characters in excruciatingly unoriginal sitcoms and lame romantic comedies often do.

  • In fact, punchy ripostes are sprinkled so heavily throughout Simon's comedies that people have been led to believe that he writes the gags first, then fleshes out the rest of the play around them.

  • "It's one of those comedies where everything works," writes Roger Ebert (the Chicago Sun-Times ). A few find the film spotty ("likable albeit hit-and-miss"--Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ), but most agree this ranks with Martin's and Murphy's best comic works.

  • Many responses pivoted on the amusing contrast between uptown swells and downtown schlubs, but this reliable device, the mighty comic engine that generated so many terrific Depression-era comedies and dimwitted Lampoon movies--Snobs vs.

  • The consensus: Twelfth Night is "the greatest of Shakespeare's romantic comedies" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ).


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