Example sentences for: comedies

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

  • 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.

  • The late John Belushi, for instance, is said to have "specifically encouraged" De Niro to star in Analyze This , while the trio of Lenny Bruce, John Huston, and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner have all been trying to tell the Oscar winner to "make more comedies and musicals."

  • The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty differs, denouncing the film's "killjoy moralism": It "isn't at all the sort of spectacle that audiences for romantic comedies expect, or deserve."

  • Eddie Murphy had been trapped in a series of stultifying high-concept comedies.

  • While other movie companies of the early '30s filmed literary adaptations or drawing-room comedies or musicals, Warner Bros., which specialized in no-frills realism, set Cagney to work in a cycle of social-problem flicks--movies drawn from headlines about striking milk truck drivers, warring taxi unions and, of course, gangsters.


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