Example sentences for: grotesque

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

  • Their "coup de théâtre" has served as a reminder "that dithering loses to derring-do," the paper said: "This may have been a media-dominated war; but to halt and advance to allow the cameras to catch up is a grotesque irresponsibility."

  • In "Partial Truths in the Partial-Birth-Abortion Debate," Atul Gawande attempts to reduce our natural, profound revulsion at the thought of the procedures used in abortion to an aesthetic response: All abortions are "grotesque," or "gross."

  • Partial-birth abortion is, if anything, less grotesque.

  • Scheck came to personify the grotesque defense attorney, bullying, self-righteous, melodramatic.

  • The catalog, filled with photographs of overly cute little girls and their grotesque simulacra--identically dressed!


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