Example sentences for: minstrel

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

  • Tucker's hyperactive antics make the film almost a "scamp minstrel show" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ), while Chan is the butt of infantile Chinese-food-related jokes.

  • These are what is sometimes referred to as black memorabilia--including Aunt Jemima cookie jars, windup minstrel dancers, Amos and Andy faces, and the like--what another avid collector, Whoopi Goldberg, refers to as "Negrobilia."

  • Many common Thai words when translated bespeak a muse or a minstrel.

  • That not just Wynonie Harris and Louis Jordan but also sax legend Lester Young got their starts with black minstrel shows?

  • ' (But then, there was the old vaudeville (minstrel?)


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