Example sentences for: travesty

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

  • The rooster crows cock-a-doodle-doo , which for anyone who has spent time on a farm is a sad travesty of the deep, throaty ur-ur-ur-ur-urrh!

  • But this denigration alone would not make the Yiddish Guide the travesty it is.

  • Dianne Feinstein had to be termed 'ludicrous' and 'a travesty' in a federal court, instead of a state one."

  • Although Dr. Orne insisted that Sexton had given him permission to do what he thought appropriate with the tapes, his colleagues howled that he had made a travesty of doctor-patient confidentiality, Sexton's wishes be damned.

  • Aside from the travesty against the Fourth Amendment, this is just another example of the paranoia and contempt aimed at teen-agers.


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