Example sentences for: humorist

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

  • If amusing but ultimately unusable newspaper clippings are the dust bunnies of a free-lance humorist's living room, then the News Quiz Spring Cleaning Extra is the rug under which to sweep them.

  • Samuel Goldwyn could scarcely be characterized as a humorist, so his Goldwynisms, rumored to be the product of a publicity agent, at least qualify as quotations.

  • The European shots were taken in Omagh, Northern Ireland, where thousands marked the one-year anniversary of the bomb that killed 29 and injured more than 200; the Colombian crowds protested the assassination of humorist and journalist Jaime Garzón, probably by right-wing paramilitarists.

  • (H. Allen Smith, an American humorist, called this, and exemplified in his own usage, parting one's name on the side.)

  • Pynchon the verbal technician is genius, but Pynchon the humorist is lame indeed and reminds one of a brainy college sophomore who studies joke books to make himself amusing.


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