Example sentences for: grotesque

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

  • Critics savaged his tabloids--the New York Post , the Boston Herald , the Chicago Sun-Times (he no longer owns the latter two)--as grotesque conservative rags.

  • Fanon is a primitive grotesque, a grunting monster.

  • Both blast the president for coddling China and ignoring its grotesque human-rights violations.

  • 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.

  • As Martyn Ecott cleverly demonstrates, francophone purists have reason for alarm; the flow, absolute flood of vocabulary from French into English, once resulting in a kind of hybridization, has lately been somewhat reversed, depositing in the elegant French language such grotesque neologisms as un pin's or hip hop.


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