Example sentences for: grotesque

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

  • They see something grotesque in the idea of making them into winter outerwear.

  • T>he Dream Life of Balso Snell seems to have taught him the rudiments of literary form, and in his next two novels, Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and A Cool Million (1934), he funneled this half-hysterical personality of his into some reasonably disciplined yet fully grotesque story lines--in the case of Miss Lonelyhearts , the noir daily life of a cynical Christian advice columnist, and in the case of A Cool Million , the adventures of a Horatio Alger-type character.

  • Parts of the commercial sprawl, while rarely grotesque, still overwhelm the little town at their center.

  • A corpse is discovered in a grotesque state of mutilation, then the scene shifts to an autopsy room where skulls are popped off and innards held up for inspection.

  • From Gulliver's Travels to my scout troop's walk through the Heart Room at Philadelphia's Franklin Institute, grotesque shifts in scale have always been funny, particularly when a little thing is made big enough to walk into.


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