Example sentences for: slapstick

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

  • The fights are riotous slapstick set pieces: In the art museum finale, Chan fends off hordes of assassins while catching giant, priceless Ming vases as they tumble from their pedestals.

  • The mixture of slacker small-talk, goofy slapstick, and Grand Guignol horror works better than anyone could have imagined.

  • While noting the film's cheap gags and formulaic plot, critics end up smiling at this slapstick courtroom comedy, which stars Michael Richards, Seinfeld 's Kramer.

  • Most movies about science aren't as lucky as October Sky , which features failures more hilarious than the slapstick set pieces of any 10 Jerry Lewis pictures.

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


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