Example sentences for: slapstick

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

  • Life Is Beautiful, written and directed by and starring Italian Roberto Benigni (he starred in Down by Law , 1986), has won international acclaim for wedding sentimental, Chaplinesque slapstick to a story that finishes up in a concentration camp with Jews being gassed and roasted.

  • Bring on the ironic one-liners and the slapstick ghoul-bashing kung fu--and let's party!

  • Opening with a slapstick sequence of agent John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) doing kung fu, the film shifts to a scene in which he meets Mrs. Peel (Uma Thurman) while sitting naked in a sauna with only a newspaper to cover his private parts.

  • Add in some slapstick, with one killer getting catapulted into a massive mountain of garbage.

  • ( Slate 's David Edelstein the movie hilarious and calls it "a slapstick fever dream."


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