Example sentences for: humorist

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

  • Imagination on their part is required, even if it is not the imagination of the poet or humorist.

  • Nowhere is this book's love/hate affair with the South more obvious than at the end, when Applebome profiles Lewis Grizzard, the Georgia humorist and newspaper columnist who asked that his ashes be spread on the 50 yard line of the Georgia Bulldogs' stadium.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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


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